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Clark's 

Tangible  Shorthand 

Self-Instructor 


THE  ONLY  SYSTEM  FREE  OF  WORD  SIGNS 


A  Purely  Phonetic  System  of  1 00  Charadert 
and  1 2  Rules 


Interesting  stories   are  introduced    for 
dictation  with  every  fifty  words  produced 


FRAN^::  'ciriAbWlCK  CLARK 

AUTHOR  AND  PUBLISHER 

KANSAS  CITY 

KANSAS 


Copyrighted,  1900,  1904,  1905,  1906,  1906,  1907,  1908 

BY 

FRANK  CHADWICK  CLARK 

AUTHOR  AND  PUBUSHER 


E.  R.  CALLENDER  PRINTING  COMPANY 

Sixth  and  Minnesota 
Kansas  City,  Kansas 


C^i  t 

PREFACE 


A  system  of  shorthand,  to  be  universally  adop- 
ted, should  have  an  alphabet  large  enough  to  furnish 
a  character  for  each  of  the  elementary  phonetic 
sounds,  each  of  the  frequently  occurring  combined 
consonant  sounds,  such  as:  pk,  tk,  fk,  Ik,  Is,  rk,  dl, 
^    pr,  tr,  fr,  vr,  Ir,  kr,  pi,  bl,  fl,  vl,  rl,  sp,  st,  sk,  etc.; 
^    and  of  such  construction  that  the  vowel  characters 
M    can  be  easily  combined  into  diphthongs  and  digraphs, 
and  join  smoothly  with  consonant  strokes,  so  that 

^    the  hand  may  glide  easily  from  one  outline  to  another 

«^ 

5    without  deforming  the  characters  or  retarding  the 

movement  of  the  hand, 
y  In  this  the  author  feels  that  this  system  comes 

5    the  nearest  to  these  ideals  of  perfection. 

In  this  connection  he  wishes  to  acknowledge  the 

receipt  of  several  valuable  suggestions  from  Rev. 

J.  B.  Worrall  and  other  students  of  the  system. 

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TERMS. 


Each         Per  Dozen 

Shorthand  Instruction  Book $2.00      $15.00 

This  book  commences  dictation 
with  the  third  page  of  the  Shorthand 
Instructor,  and  contains  correspond- 
ing reading  and  writing  matter  that 
leads  into  the  most  difficult  court 
work. 

This  book  is  purchased  with  the  understanding 
ttiat  every  student  of  this  system  must  study  a  book 
of  his  own. 

The  system  must  not  be  modified,  changed,  or 
improved  only  by  and  with  the  consent  of  its  author. 


INTRODUCTION. 


All  mankind  express  themselves  by  the  use  of  articulate 
sounds. 

These  sounds  are  combined  in  different  ways,  by  the  human 
race,  to  record  what  we  call  words,  and  expressed  by  characters 
that  represent  elementary  sounds  which  we  call  letters. 

Should  every  race  of  the  human  family  use  the  same  charac- 
ters to  express  the  same  sounds,  less  than  fifty  characters  would 
recoLrd  every  elementary  sound  in  existence. 

But,  on  the  contrary,  the  English  Language,  especially  the 
American  branch  of  it,  is  made  up  of  every  other  language  in  ex- 
istence; each.of  which  have  their  peculiar  sounds  for  the  letters  or 
the  characters  they  use  to  express  themselves. 

Therefore,  by  the  efforts  of  our  educators  to  express  foreign 
words  so  that  both  the  Englishman  and  the  foreigner  may  recog- 
nize the  same,  we  have  introduced  into  our  language  such  a  multi- 
plied form  of  spelling,  that  it  has  become  and  is  becoming  exceed- 
ingly burdensome. 

From  the  French,  we  have  "eau"  for  the  spelling  of  long  "o"; 
from  the  Spanish,  we  get  a  character  like  this,  "  tf "  for  the  sound 
of  "neQh",  and  this,  "11"  for  the  sound  of  "leiih",  and  from  thfc 
German,  we  have  "ei"  for  long  "i"  and  "ie"  for  long  "e". 


Thereby,  "a",  has  nine;  "e",  seven;  "i"  five;  "o",  seven,  and 
"u"  six  different  sounds. 

They  each  have  several  different  ways  by  which  thetr  sounds 
may  be  spelled;  as,  long  "o"  may  be  spelled,  "eau,  ow,  oh,  owe,  eo, 
oe,  ough",  and  "o",  followed  by  a  consonant,  requires  an  "e"  to 
distinguish  the  long  from  the  short  "o". 

This  necessitates  the  abandonment  of  the  whole  English  Al- 
phabet and  the  adoption  of  independent  characters  to  represent 
these  elementary  sounds  for  shorthand  work;  as,  The  word  "beau" 
has  but  two  sounds— "beh  ^2'  ^^^  ^^  c  l,"  and  are  written  this 
way  "  C    (beau  or  bow)". 

This"  process  of  shorthand  becomes  exceedingly  simple  when  a 
student  gets  entirely  away  from  the  old  form  of  spelling  while 
writing  shorthand  and  simply  records  the  sound  [not  those  of  the 
English  Alphabet]  that  he  has  heard  in  the  word  spoken,  and 
learns  to  dissolve  words  into  their  elementary  sounds. 


TO  THE  TEACHER  AND  STUDENT. 

This  instruction  book  can  be  used  for  spelling  type- 
writer practice,  shorthand  instruction  and  dictation 
purposes,  as  there  are  about  five  thousand  different 
words  grouped  into  lessons  of  forty  to  fifty  each,  and 
these  words  are  woven  into  little  spicy  stories  in  such 
a  way  as  to  show  their,  application. 

There  are  about  one  hundred  different  characters 
in  the  system,  fifteen  of  which  are  vowel  charcters. 
The  rest  are  divided  into  single  and  double  consonant 
characters.  These  consonant  characters  have  four 
lengths:  J,  i,  |,  and  full  length.  They  are  part  of 
a  circle ( 

In  order  to  have  a  gauge  where-  ( 
by  the  length  of  a  stroke  can  be( 
quickly  determined,  there  are  two  starting  points 
from  which  they  are  recorded;  one  for  the  downward 
stroke  and  one  for  the  upward  stroke. 

All  downward  strokes  commence  one-half  way  be- 
tween rules  lines  and  extend  downward  their  relative 
lengths;  one  fourth  length  extends  toward  ruled  line; 
one-half,  to  the  line;  three-fourths,  just  across,  and 
full  length,  to  half  its  length  below  the  ruled  line  of 
writing,  as  follows;  ^     (       i        /  / 

All  upward  strokes  (  P.V..b.\-.pkVv;^bk..l. 

~(      V^^     7  < -=^- 

(Ns./..n./..m/...mn. /.....  commence  at  base  line  of 
writing  and  extend  upward  their  relative  lengths: 
one-fourth,  one-half,  three-fourths  and  full  distance. 

Parallel  strokes  may  be  written  in  the  most  con- 
venient position  for  the  writer  at  the  time  of  record- 
ing, unless  followed  by  a  downward  or  upward  stroke 
in  the  same  outline.  If  by  a  downward  stroke,  it 
should  be  recorded  one-half  way  between  ruled  lines; 
if  by  an  upward  stroke,  it  should  be  recorded  on  base 
line  of  writing. 

All  circles  or  loops  must  curve  to  or  from  the  inside 
of  curved  strokes  unless  used  for  some  extra  purpose 
that  requires  their  being  recorded  otherwise. 


Twenty-two  of  these  characters  are  known  as 
single  consonant  characters.  They  have  but  one 
eound  each,  (excepting  "ks"  stroke,  which  is  called 
"cus.") 

The  name  of  these  characters  is  determined  as 
illustrated  in  lesson  one. 

The  student  should  make  a  careful  study  of  the 
.-ounds  that  constitute  the  name  of  each  character  in 
this  way:  Speak  the  word  "ape,"  and  notice  the 
change  in  the  shape  of  the  mouth  while  saying  it, 
and  each  of  the  two  sounds  in  the  word.  The  sec- 
ond sound  in  the  word  is  the  name  of  the  "p"  stroke. 
It  should  never  be  called  "pea." 

Study  all  of  these  sounds  over  and  over  until 
they  are  thoroughly  associated  with  the  stroke,  and 
while  doing  so,  retrace  each  of  these  strokes  with  a 
light  even  pressure  of  a  dry  pen  while  calling  them 
by  name,  but  never  retrace  with  a  dash  of  the  pen. 

The  length,  direction,  and  shape  of  the  stroke 
must  be  carefully  studied,  so  that  they  can  be  made 
quickly — exactly  like  copy. 

When  this  is  done,  these  consonant  characters 
should  be  written  in  a  tablet  across  the  page  in  the 
order  of  their  arrangement,  over  and  over  until  they 
can  be  written  at  a  high  rate  of  speed  in  copy-plate 
FORM.    At  least  ten  solid  pages. 

In  the  second  lesson,  the  words  extracted  from 
these  characters  and  the  "familiar"  words  introduc- 
ed, should  be  practiced  over  and  over  until  they  can 
be  freely  handled  in  general  composition  work. 

Thinking  of  outlines  for  words  requires  more 
time  than  it  does  to  record  them;  therefore,  for 
speedy  writing,  it  is  necessary  to  relieve  the  mind  of 
everything  that  can  be  made  a  force  of  habit. 

Writing  too  fast  causes  a  poor  outline  and  writ- 
ing too  slow  causes  a  dormant  mind.    The  spirit  of 


push  and  enterprise  should  imbue  the  student  at  all 
times. 

Recording  a  whole  discourse  in  successive  out- 
lines by  copying  from  print  is  too  heavy  a  tax  on  the 
mind  of  the  beginner. 

The  outlines  in  the  third  lesson  are  the  repeti- 
tion of  the  outlines  in  columns  one  and  three  of  Les- 
son one,  that  is,  the  short  e  and  the  long  a — spelled 
eh  and  aye — are  joined  to  the  beginning  and  to  the 
end  of  these  single  consonant  characters,  thereby 
producing  words  or  parts  of  words. 

The  drill  upon  these  should  be  the  same  as  the 
drill  upon  the  single  consonant  characters,  while  the 
student  is  making  a  careful  study  of  the  words  pro- 
duced. 

If  speed  is  to  be  attained,  why  not  commence  it 
by  laying  a  good  foundation  ? 

The  next  lesson  is  composed  of  the  words  pro- 
duced and  introduced  in  preceding  lessons.  In  this 
the  pupil  should  be  required  to  write  these  words  in 
shorthand  for  an  examination  as  to  the  accuracy  of 
the  outline  and  the  freedom  with  which  they  can 
racord  it.  Then  the  story  should  be  dictated  to  the 
student  without  former  practice,  and  the  student 
should  be  required  to  transcribe  it  in  either  long  hand 
or  on  the  typewriter,  and  graded  according  to  their 
accuracy  of  transcript.  If,  then,  any  words  are  mis- 
spelled or  other  error  is  made  in  the  transcript,  the 
student  should  be  so  drilled  upon  such  word  or  the 
correction  of  such  error  as  to  thoroughly  eliminate 
the  habit. 

The  teacher  should  keep  in  mind  the  fact  that 
the  first  time  a  student  takes  dictation  in  shorthand, 
all  he  has  learned  seems  to  leave  him  for  the  time 
being  and  he  does  not  do  himself  justice.  He  will 
take  this  first  dictation  slowly,  but  in  a  short  time 


this  will  pass  away  if  the  teacher  is  quiet  and  allows 
him  to  speak  the  last  word  of  one  phrase  or  clause 
before  dictating  another. 

The  plan  of  the  following  lessons  are  repetitions 
jf  the  last  two  lessons,  until  these  single  consonant 
characters  have  been  so  joined  to  all  of  the  single 
vowel  characters,  and  should  be  studied  in  the  same 
manner. 

After  this,  a  principle  is  introduced  and  carried 
through  all  of  these  combinations,  then  another  and 
another  until  all  of  the  rules  have  been  applied  to  the 
single  consonant  and  single  vowel  characters  in  com- 
bination. The  student  should  carry  every  new  prin- 
ciple through  the  preceding  process  in  search  of  new 
words,  and  drill  upon  the  same. 


SINGLE  CONSONANT  CHARACTERS. 

The  following  words  and  combinations  are  formed  by  joining  long  S« 
'  V,  which  is  a  circle,  to  these  consonant  strokes  The  short  5  '  V  is 
like  long  a. 

These  words  and  combinations  are  composed  of  two  sounds-  as.  ache 
is  pronounced  a— k,  aich  is  pronounced  a— ch  and  eighth  is  pronounced 
a— th.  Therefore  take  the  sound  of  long  a  from  these  words  and  combi* 
nations  and  the  remainder  of  the  word  will  be  the  name  of  each  conson* 
ant  character. 

Ape,..S: without  a  is  p....Sr. and  pay....^. without  a  is  p  .St , 

Abe...L> without  a  is  b.... *>»•.... and  bay....Lo. without  a  is  b...  *>-..,.... 

ave....^ without  a  is  v.....\ andjreigh-...^ without  a  is  v  ....\ 

afe....*....,.  without  a  is  f.....\ and  Fay ^ without  a  is  f  ....\ 

ale...'«v'. without  a  is  l..m<'. and  lay  ....«<? without  a  is  I   r^.. 

air.5!hrr.....  without  a  is  r  ..r7rr....and  ray.. ..r:rf?..,. without  a  isr 

hay.. .J without  aish..../ and  whey I.... without  a  is  wb  ....!..... 

ache.^ without  a  is  k  ..3 and  kay...Jwi..T.... .without  a  is  k  .Z^ 


aches..? without  a  is  ks....? and  case ^ without  a  is  ks....^. 

«ich  ...V without  a  is  ch....^ and  chay.....^. without  a  is  ch...>. 

age  ...C without  a  is  J.....C and  jay .4 without  a  is  j  ....C 

egg... ^.......without  a  is  g....(^. and  gay ^. without  a  is  g....^. 

aqua../f. without  a  is  i\...C.. and  Quay  ....r. without  a  is  q  C. 

eightsL-^..  without  a  is  t  ,.vL.<'....and  tay  .s^^ without  a  is  t  ^^.^ 

€ighth<3r>.  without  a  is  th./rn:N...and  they  ./rrTfe without  a  is  tb.<:^7:^.., 

aid  dTTTTTr^.without  a  is  d^frTTTrrs.and  day.  icTTrTrn^D.,.  without  a  is  d  ^rrTTTTrN. 

ain....^. without  a  is  n.../C..,...and  nay....,^. without  a  is  o  / 

aim  <:^...;..  without  a  is  m..v^.....and  may  .j/ without  a  is  m ./. 

Aist  C without  a  is  St  ../T. and  stay.../:?. without  a  is  st  ../T. 

ace..£". without  a  is  s  ..r. and  way.....'*...S.  without  a  is  w.....?.. .">..., 

8ay...o..,....without  ais  8  (shade)  and  yea...?? without  a  is  y T 


CONSONANT  STROKES 

The  following  twenty-two  characters,  are  nearly  one-fourth 
of  the  strokes  used  in  this  system  of  shorthand  and,  therefore, 
should  be  written  in  a  tablet  in  the  order  below,  exactly  like 
copy,  over  and  over  until  they  can  be  recorded  at  a  speed  of,  at 
least,  one  hundred  words  per  minute,  and  every  succeeding  les- 
son should  attain,  at  least,  this  requirement. 

This  is  the  only  system  of  shorthand  that  carries  the  pupil 
through  on  new  matter,  and  if  the  pupil  will  master  each  prin- 
ciple so  thoroughly  that  he  can  take  any  dictation  at  a  high 
speed  that  consists  only  of  the  words  produced  by  such  princi- 
ple or  principles  as  he  has  learned,  without  practicing  the  dic- 
tation matter  before  taking  it;  such  pupil  will  not  only  attain 
a  high  degree  of  perfection  in  the  shorthand  but  will  acquire 
the  system  in  a  remarkably  short  time. 

The  figures  on  the  characters  below  indicate  their  relative 
lengths  (see  page  one) :  4,  one-fourth;  2,  one-half ;  3,  three- 
fourths;  and  1,  full  length.  Observe  that  "p,  b,  1,  k  and  st" 
extend  forward  as  far  as  they  go  up  or  down;  that  "ch,  j,  g 
and^"  are  perpendicular,  and  that  "n  and  m"  can  be  written 
upward  or  downward  on  the  slant  indicated. 

PAGE  OF  TABLET 


wh 


ks 


.^....^....1...^ j^,.^..:.!.,: :^ 2 


WORD  CONTRACTIONS. 

Even  the  best  speakers  contract  the  words,  "To,  the,  do, 
and  would**  to  the  sounds  of,  "t,  th,  or  d'*  in  such  expres- 
sions as  this,  "D*you  know  it'd  be  well  f'rus  t'go  t*  th'  city. 

We,  therefore,  shade  consonants  to  add  these  words  to  other 
words;  as,  "for"  shaded,  becomes  "for  th**  Thus  we  use: 
\  \ 


FAMILIAR  WORDS. 

Most  of  the  following  words  are  developed  in  foltowing 

lessons: 

In.  .*. .  .any.<?. .  .on.ty.  .f ronJVc<rr^l . ).. .  .we. /?. .  .saw.i .  ..as./,  .is. «?... 
was.'>f..with5rT7>..us.^ would see.. T... so.  .f  ...use..'?... 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


For 

to 

in 

saw 

would 

up 

the 

any 

as 

see 

of 

do 

on 

is 

so 

have 

&n 

all 

from 

use 

will 

and 

we 

was 

are 

am 

us 

with 

Will  was  with  us  on  the  way  from  the  woods  to  the  sea, 
and  we  saw  the  wood-saw  Will  was  to  use  to  saw  all  of  the 
wood  we  have  in  the  woods. 

Is  Will  to  have  any  wood? 

As  we  are  to  have  Will  saw  "up"  all  of  the  wood  we 
have,  wood  is  due  Will  for  the  wood  we  have. 

Do  you  say  you  saw  Will? 

We  see  Will  on  the  sea  and  so  do  you.  We  also  saw  dew 
on  the  wood  Will  is  to  saw. 


The  long  a  and  short  e  are  circles  the  size  of  Pica  type  or 
typewriter  type  for  "o."  It  circles  from  or  to  the  inside  of 
curves;  from  the  right  side  of  the  beginning  of  n  or  m  strokes, 
(which  are  always  written  upward  following  circle  vowels) 
and  circles  to  the  left  side  of  n  or  m  when  written  at  the  end. 


Ape..  ^..  pay. 


Abe.C.ebb.^.bayW.*. 

efiA..Fay..^ *. 

^v..\. .  veigh.  A .  .ave\*. . . . 
ell.aJ.ailfl-/.lay~^..* 


ereyrrrr...T&y..-rr7:r^...'' 

hay. .a. .whey 1 *. 

ache..*^A...kay!^. *.... 

aches.. ^.. ex..?... case.?.* ... 
aich . .  .>! .  etch .  .9. .  .chay . ... . 


edge . .  C  .age .  .C .  .jay . .  .fo. 
egg.. ^...  gay... (j. 


aiqua./^..Quay....L. * 

ate..O>'..et.S_/  .tay.s^..  *. 


eighth.  j(3!Trrs.  they. 

aid  i($rrr7:>s. .  Ed  .<5rri77>\  .day  .^^rrrr 

en..6  ain.  <^.... nay. /....* 

em. ^.. aim. ^..  may//.* 

e8.6'...ai8t.^...stay.^..* 

weh.<5...way.9...yeh.<?...yea..O. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Ape 

whey 

gay 

may 

M 

pay 

ache 

eight 

stay 

N 

Abe 

aches 

eighth 

nay 

F 

bay 

case 

they 

L 

edge 

ail 

H 

aid 

ere 

lay 

age 

day 

X 

hay 

egg 

aim 

Ed 

THE  THINGS  TO  BE  DONE  ON  MAY  8TH. 

On  the  8th  day  of  May,  Abe  L.  Case  will  pay  Ed  N. 
Quay  for  a  wood-saw. 

Ed  will  have  the  wood-saw  in  the  woods  for  Abe  and  will 
saw  the  wood.    AD  of  us  will  pay  Ed. 

May  F.  Ray  saw  an  ape  and  the  ape  lay  on  the  hay  in 
the  woods,  and  ere  the  ape  is  eight  days  of  age,  N.  X.  Case 
and  Abe  say  they  will  pay  May  for  the  ape. 

May  and  Fay  say,  "All  ails  Abe  is  the  stay  in  the 
woods."    Abe  aches  and  will  ache  all  day. 

All  of  us  will  aid  Abe  and  saw  the  wood — ^nay,  Ed  will 
stay  and  pay  for  the  eggs.* 

N.  X.  Case  is  of  age  today,  so  N.  Ray  and  Will  R.  Day 
will  stay  on  the  edge  of  the  bay.  They  will  have  a  case  of 
ale,  whey  and  a  gay  day. 

Will  and  May  say  they  will  see  Ray  on  the  8th  day  of 
May  and  have  Fay  weigh  the  hay  and  the  wood,  case  the  eggs 
and  the  whey,  and  pay  Ed  for  the  ale  they  may  have  on  the 
bay. 

They  say  the  ape  will  neigh, — I  say  nay.  The  ape  ate  the 
whey  and  lay  in  the  hay. 

See  page  29  for  the  rule  for  reversed  hook. 


THE  LONG  VOWELS. 

These  long  vowel  characters,  on  the  side  of  this  page,  may 
be  shaded  for  the  sound  of  "s"  before  them  or  the  sound  of 
"s.  z,  sh^r  tion"  after  them. 


Ai^,..eh..Q..*.. 
e....:....\h.P....*.. 
1  ..c/ *.. 

o.....?. *.. 

U..'?...00..w *.. 

w....? *., 

y • •... 

Vowels  shaded, 
say. ...P. *.. 

ace.....c> *. 

see * *. 

ice (f *. 

80....C ...*. 

use....O. *. 


sue. 


rs  * 


owes..^. *., 

ocean. .^ *. 

ease....v *. 

sigh...lt^ *. 


THE  LONG  I.  u 

The  character  for  long!  is  adjusted  to  all  consonant  char- 
acters (excepting  n  or  m,  which  are  adjusted  to  the  T)  so  as 
to  curve  to  the  inside  of  consonant  curves,  and  frwn  or  to 
the  right  or  lower  side  of  strokes. 


C     „;oU 


* 


Ipe..^T....pie 
1be..s-....buy.v»s».*. 
rve.\..vie..\i...  .*. 

ife...\...fie-.\j *. 

rU.cw/..lye.:Tr?...*. 


ire .  ?rrrr. . .  jye.-n:=?* . 
high.. It. . why  .L..*. 
lke.T^....kie^.  ...*. 
Ike's.?.. .kies. ?....*. 
Tche..?....chTe..^...*. 


Ije..\, jTe...u...* 

l8re..(: guy.(^...* 

iqua./^ qui./...* 

ite.%«<'...tie.S,^...» 

■ith<2C^v..thy.<r5*..* 

rd.«Cr^s .  ..dye/r:rr:=*..* . 

ine^..nigh.^. • 

Ym.c/......my.^...  * 

ice..(r.....8ty-/!t..  • 

my..V. • 


THE  LONG  E  AND  SHORT  I.    .      <> 

The  long  e  is  a  small  closed  circle  and  short  t  is  a  small 
open  circle.  These  are  joined  to  consonant  strokes  in  the 
same  way  that  long  a  is  joined.  Turn  to  lesson  one  and 
examine  the  outlines.    "Is"  is  short  i  shaded 

Epe..^....pea * 

eeb...Cw...be .V»#.....  .* 

eve...\...vee \ * 

if....\....fee...\ * 

ill*^.eel.,^.lea..^. * 


ear.fr:77r..re. 


♦ 


he. .J whee....i ♦.. 

eke.r\..key..r?ii *.. 

ekes...?.  ...keys.  ...kiss. !:.  *.. 
each..9...itch..?...chee.rr.*.. 

eaj..s....gee...C *.. 

eeg..v.Tg-\   gea..^..... * 

equa/^...quee./...* 

it.%^^.e&t.Srr-^..tea..>yrr?...:- 
TthtfTTMhis  yrrm^  .these  .^rr::^ 
eed.fTTTlTrr^idea/^rrrTTTX.* ., 

east.r...8tea..<r'. *.... 

wlh.?. we..f...f:*. *. 

yih..* ye...* *.. 

in<?.<r...een./...knee./;..  *.. 
eem.t....iTn.^..A...me.//.... 


10  CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


I,  eye 

sew 

I've 

high 

I'm 

you 

sue 

fie 

why 

nigh 

owe 

Sioux 

I'll,  isle 

tie 

my 

oh 

owes 

aisle 

thy 

sty 

sea 

pie 

lie 

I'd 

be,  bee 

ice 

by 

lye 

die 

pea 

eyes 

buy 

rye 

dye 

if 

ABE  AND  MAY. 

Abe  saw  May  today  and  said,*  "May,  will  you  sew  for 
me?"  May  said,  "You'll  have  to  pay  me  if  I  do,  for  I  may 
have  to  buy  hay  today." 

"I'd  sew  for  you  for  two  days  if  you'd  saw  wood  for  me. 
Ed  will  saw  ice  for  X.  L.  Ayerst  and  you  may  use  the  wood- 
saw." 

"May,  I've  a  case  of  eggs*  you  may  have  and  I  may 
saw  the  wood  for  you,  also,  if  you  have  a  wood-saw  for  me 
to  use." 

"Today,  as  I  was  on  the  bay,  I  saw  an  ape  in  the  woods 
nigh  the  sty.  Oh!  Do  see  the  Sioux.  The  Sioux  is  on  the 
isle." 

"Say,  May,  I  saw  the  Sioux  buy  rye  and  ale.  It  may  be 
the  Sioux  will  have  your  pay." 

"If  so,  the  Sioux  will  have  to  pay  me  for  the  wood  and 
dye." 

"Is  all  he  owes  you  due?" 

"All  he  owes  me  is  due." 

"Why,  would  you  sue  the  Sioux?" 

"I  would." 

"I  may  see  the  Sioux  today,  as  I  have  to  stay  and  sew  for 
Sue,  and  Ed  will  pay  me  on  the  8th  day  of  May." 

"You  may  sew  for  me  and  I  will  pay  you  for  the  tie 
and  all  you  sew  in  two  days.  I  may  have  the  Sioux  pay 
you  ere  the  8th  day  of  May." 

*See  page  25  for  the  rule  for  shading  vowels. 

tSee  page  29  for  the  rule  for  reversed  hook. 


THE  LONG  U  AND  LONG  00.    - 

The  n  or  m  strokes  are  adjusted  to  the  long  u  or  long  oo 
characters  so  that  when  these  are  read  before  the  n  or  m  the 
n  or  m  is  written  downward,  if  read  after  the  n  or  m  the  n 
orm  is  written  upward.  The  long  u  or  long  6b  is  joined  to 
all  other  characters  with  as  sharp  an  angle  as  possible  or  by 
complete  blending 

Upe-.Sr pew..Sf. * 

ube...V»-,....boo..Sw^....* 

you*ve..\..view.\%  * 

ufe...A few..\x * 

you'W/x^... lew. .rr>:. * 

yOUr.'?rrr7rr...rue.rrrT:^...* , ... 

who...K whew.I....* 

uke...r?\...cue.\> * 

ukes...<....cuse..?>....* 

uche..V. chew...r.....* 

uge...C. Jew...Cx...* 

6bg.\ go6...V„ * 

uqua.^. kwoo../.....* ^ 

Ute.?s,<rr...too..s,rt^.* 

youth  <rTr>>.thue/^rrTy>.* 

you'd.oc^rrrrrrN.dew.-j'rrrTrrri...* 

une../. new.Z^ * ; 

ume.^. mew.Z * 

ust..<<r. stew..^. * 

wob..fr> yew^.f^ * 


THE  LONG  O.  c 

The  n  or  m  is  written  upward  after  long  o  and  written 
downwards  before  long  o.  With  all  other  consonant  charac- 
ters, the  0  fornjs  a  complete  blending  or  as  sharp  an  angle 
as  possible 

Ope..S-...poe..^.  ..* 

obe...\«..bow...N^.* 

Ove..\....voe  ..\....* 

6fe..\....f5e..\....* 

61e..c-/...low.«J'...* 


o'erfrrrr...row.r~T.  * 

hoe..  J whoa...\....* 

oak-.^.-coeT^ * 

oaks..r...coes..< * 

oach.v.  ..choe  .x....* 

oge...C Jbe..y....* 

oag..(^       go...y...* 

oqua./..... quo... /....• 

oat.S-^....toe  .s»— fi.* 

oath.<~>.though.<''T~:t  ...*.. . . 
ode.<r....7>s..doe.^rrrrr^.*. 

own.c/ know..c....  * 

ome..C^....mow.^. * 

ost../] stow.yT^....  * 

away..fe...woe..^...yeo...^....*. 


SHORT  00  AND  SHORT  U.    t> 

Short  66  and  short  u  are  the  right  half  of  a  circle  and  are. 
either  completely  blended  with  other  strokes  or  form  as 
sharp  an  angle  as  possible -. 


Up...^ pd6..S:^ *.. 

uv....\....vuh  ..^ *... 

uf...\   ...fo^....\ *... 

oblaJ....ld6.^.....* 

were /^rrrr: .  .rd^.TrrrT?.  .*.. . 

huh...L, whuh..A *. 

ook..'S....kuh.7V..'... 

obks..?... cuss. ..>....* 

utch..>...chuh..?....  *.... 

uj....C...juh...s>.,.* 

dog.. ^.....guh..Cj.. ...*.... 
ut.?f»^....tuh  s-^.. ..*... 
uth.>rn:^...thuh..'<:7:i..=t 
ud.?rrrrr:>...dtih,-r:7r: 

iin../ nuh...^ *.. 

um../..,....muh./. *, 

ust.^.....stah./:T....* 


yoo.... ....woo.. ........* 

6bkw.^.,.qud6..r....*. 

yuh..'.....wuh..?. * 


quay 

e'er 

few 

Jew 

key 

knee 

you'U 

Ute 

kiss 

me 

lieu 

few 

each 

east 

your 

youth 

it 

ye 

rue 

you'd 

eat 

pew 

who 

dew 

tea 

you've 

hew 

new,  knew 

thee 

view 

chew 

stew 

ABE'S  VISIT. 

14  CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 

Eve 

ifee 

m 

eel 


ear 

he 

■eke 


On  a  May  day,  as  the  dew  lay  all  o'er  the  rye,  peas,  wood 
and  hay  on  the  low  lea,  Abe  Case,  a  youth  of  eight  years, 
was  on  the  way  to  the  east  to  see  Ed  Wood,  a  Sioux,  for  a 
stay  of  eight  days.  On  the  way,  he  saw  the  yew  and  the 
oak  of  the  woods,  the  isle  of  the  sea,  and  a  pew  by  the 
aisle  by  the  sea. 

Eve,  a  wee  Sioux,  saw  Abe,  and,  e'en  though  he  would  eat 
tea.  Eve  would  have  Abe  kiss  each  of  the  Sioux;  Eve,  who 
was  on  his  knee.  Lew,  Lee,  Fay,  Ray,  Ed  and  two  of  May's 
"beaux. 

Ere  tea  was  o'er,  Poe  and  Hugh  rowed*  o'er  the  bay 
to  see  Ed,  the  Sioux,  who  was  ill.  He  said,t  "I  ache."  Poe 
said,  "The  aches  of  Ed  are  due  to  a  sty  in  the  eye,"  and 
Hugh  said,  "Ed  is  so  ill  he  may  die."  So  they  saw  Sue  to 
have  a  stew  of  eel  for  Ed  and  Ed  may  eat  the  eel,  eggs,  Jnew 
peas,  and  a  few  pies  as  Poe  and  Hugh  hoe  the  peas. 

They  say  Abe  will  buy  the  isle  of  the  Sioux  for  a  view. 
So,  he  may  have  a  view  of  the  sea,  the  quay  and  the  Utes*, 
(foes  of  the  Jew)  whom  he  knew  in  the  east. 

As  the  stay  of  Abe  was  up  on  May  8th,  Ed  Keys  and 
Abe  rowed*  away. 

*See  rule  for  reversed  hook  on  page  29. 

tSee  rule  for  shading  consonants  on  page  34. 

tSee  rule  for  shading  vowels  on  page  25. 


THE  SHORT  A.      / 

The  short  a  is  a  diagonal  tick,  and  is  joined  to  all  other 
strokes  with  as  sharp  an  angle  as  possible „. 


Ap...rr paa.../^.. 

ab...\-....baa...S^....*. 

av....  A vaa-.X*'....*  . 

af..A faa.N^ *.. 

al./..^..laa  .^....*... 


air.f....:T...raa..-r 


haa..u whaa..| * 

ac....^....caaT\ *. 

ax....r.....  cass...f:,.  ... 


atch..!7...chaa.„V....* 

aj .X jaa...V-.-.* 

ag....^ gaa... (.....*.  ... 

aqua.. /....quaa.. /....* 

at.<^w_«x..  taa.-S — ^.. .*.... 

ath>^:7:>s...tha.<rr>/.* 

ad  .^rrrrTTrrN.. . .  d  aa  x<rrTT?> 

an..f^. naa.-^ *... 

SLm..y\. maa./T *. 

ast  X"- staa./r!...* 

waa..?.......yaa...<.^..*.. 

as../ saa-.r* — *.... 


THE  SHORT  6  OR  HARD  A.   ^ 

The  short  o  or  hard  *a  is  the  under  hal^  of  a  circle.  The  n 
(ur  m  is  written  upward  after  it  and  downward  before  it.  It 
either  blends  with  other  strokes  or  is  joined  with  as  sharp  an 
angle  as  possible 


6p...^.....pa..-Sf. 


ob...^.,..b*ah...W...* 

0V....A vah...\/ *. 

of....X...fa....Nv *.. 

ol..^......la..^,...*.... 

are  vrrrr:..Tdh.rrrry.* ... 

ha....L wha...l...,.  *• 

oc...!^....cah..J *.. 

ox...!? cahs..P *. 

otch...*^....chah...^.....*. 
6dg....t jah....C *. 

og...X- gah-C-....*. 

ocqua/,...quah./. *.. 


on...«/\......nah..c *... 

om..u/....,..mi./. *. 


ost-wT. st^h./Tf....*. 

os..»/7. sah..v. *, 

wah..~ yah..V * 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND.  17 


Poe 

odd 

oath 

stow 

at 

bow 

oak 

ma 

away 

add 

foe 

oaks 

though 

pa 

low 

Joe 

ode 

were 

o'er 

go 

doe 

air 

row 

oat 

know 

ax 

Although  Joe  Cass  and  Ray  Poe  were  on  oath  and  said 
they  would  use  the  oars  we  have,  to  row  pa  and  ma  o'er  the 
bay  for  the  doe  and  the  oats,  Joe  would  not  go,  and  said  he 
would  have  to  mow  the  hay,  hoe  the  peas  and  stow  the  hay 
away  in  the  hay-mow.  He  also  said,  as  we  have  no  ax,  he 
would  have  to  saw  the  oak-wood  with  the  old  wood-saw. 

I  know  an  odd  ode  Joe  used  to  have;  also,  have  a  bow 
and  arrows  he  used  to  use  as  he  would  go  out  on  the  low 
lea  to  meet  his  foe  at  the  oaks. 


THE  BROAD  4  OR  AW 

The  broad  ^  sound,  spelled  aw.  is  recorded  by  a  perpen- 
dicular tick,  and  always  joined  to  other  strokes  with  as  sharp 
an  angle  as  possible 


/Vup. .  ..St.  . . .  .paw. .  .^^?. 


§ub....Sw...baw....V^....* 

§uv....\ vaw...\ " 

off....\....faw...\ * 

all..'.. ^... law  ^. •: 

or.. .'..:■..: raw.rrrr?...* 

hfiw...), whaw...f. •  ... 

auk...T7\ Kaw7\ *.  .. 

gux....< cause. ..\ *  

auch  .C chaw  ..S.. * 

awj....C jaw....C,. • 


Aug....(]^ gaw...^. 


^wqua. .  / quaw. .  /. 

ought  is.~*/. .  ..taw  .^r-^l.  ..^ 
auth.  >rr:^  ..thaw  .-^rrTM...' 
gwed .  j<:r77?>\ . .  daw  ^rrrrrr 

awn.../. gna.w.. /..... 

gum..j/. maw./ 

aust..*f st^w../r^....  *. 

gus..  *<T saw...*.. .• 

wj^u...?. yaw....l..f... 


THE  OU  OR  OW  AND  01  OR  OY.  19 


The  OU  is  composed  of  the  ah  and  the  short  oo,  forming 
two-thirds  of  a  circle.  The  oy  is  composed  of  the  aw  and  the 
ihor  small  circle;  as,  OW  o  oi    i 


Bow..  Sso .  ..boy . .  Sr^ . .  ,.*. 

vow./So voi...Nl *... 

owl .  vir^ . .  allow  .^-J^'.  *.  . 
oil.  ij^. ..  .alloy  .^,^.,.<<^..*.. . . 
our  .orrr:.  Roy .  .rr-m . . .  * . . 

how..b cow..Tji?.....*. 

coy..V?V... cows. ..«...* 

ouch.v choi...S....  *... 

chow..>? joy...C *... 

out.os — <<..toy."s~<<3.  * 

thou./rTTTsj *  .. 

endow.. <^....r>f? *  ... 

now.;o.^oun..»X.^3..* .. 
oin. .JK^... annoy. uf<<^..*.. 
moi.x^. mow../. ♦. 

oust.^....stou./r::^.. .*.... 

ah-€-o-a     lowa.*:^..*.... 
o  •  c  o 

o-ah-e-o  Ohio..^...*... 
c  w   •  .c 

Association...!!^... 


20 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Paw 

jaw 

boy 

our 

ouch 

off 

ought 

vow 

row 

joy 

law 

aught 

owl 

how 

out 

raw 

awed 

oil 

now 

thou 

or 

gnaw 

allow 

cows 

cause 

bough 

alloy 

coy 

HELPING  A  NEIGHBOR. 


"Say,  Roy,"  said  Hugh  Hays,  a  boy  of  two-eight  (28) 
years,  "I  ought  to  go  see  the  Coys." 

*'A1  Case  was  at  the  Oaks  today,  and  said  Lee  was  'so'  ill, 
Joe  was  way  out  at  sea,  his  pa  was  away  at  law  for  a  cow  a 
boy  has,  e'en  though  the  cow  was  coy,  the  boy  has  it,  and 
Lee's  pa  had*  to  go  to  law  for  the  cow.  I  see  no  cause  for 
the  boy;  though  they  were  awed  by  the  oath  of  the  boy. 

"I  ought  to  mow  the  hay  for  the  Coys  and  stow  it  away 
in  the  hay-mow." 

"I  will  stow  it  away,"  said  Roy,  "and  you  go  and  see 
Lee.  They  have  a  doe,  bees,  and  an  owl  for  you  to  see  to. 
You  ought  to  buy  an  ax  so  you  may  cut  wood  for  the  Coys  to 
use.    I  know  you  would  enjoy  it  to  see  the  Coys  have  wood." 

"Oil  is  in  the  hay-mow,  and  if  you  stow  away  the  hay, 
do  not  alloy  it,"  said  Hugh. 

Lee  said,  "ouch"  and  the  owl  said,  "Who?  who?  are  you?" 

*See  page  34  for  the  rule  for  shading  consonants. 


CONTINUOUS  COMBINATIONS.  21 

Other  sounds,  syllables  or  words  may  be  added  to  any 
combination  of  sounds  by  adding  other  strokes  or  outlines; 
but  care  must  be  used  that  no  awkward  junctions  be  ap- 
plied  


These... /-rrrC *.. 

give Q *. 

gave....Q. *.., 

forgive /. * 

leave.^..llaf.~A  *. 

before.. ..Sv^ *.... 

above.. ..St^. *  ... 

question. ry... 


^  * 


such 

bet  ween..  V-,^. *. 

besides... iss* *  •• 

beyond.... Sr*^ *. 

five....\i^. • 

fifth...V •. 

receive \ . 

request..  ^../T *.. 

business..  \^. *.. 

quinine. /ly:'. *  . 

receipt *... 

chief... ..^ *. 

stock.. .'T.A ....*. 


22 

CLARK'S 

TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 

Now 

aqua 

thief 

fife 

before 

mow- 

Ettie 

leaf 

deaf 

stock 

oust 

Eddie 

leave 

dove 

teach 

away 

Addie 

heave 

dove 

these 

obey 

Anna 

cave 

stiff 

give 

Abbie 

Emma 

cuff 

stave 

gave 

Eva 

them* 

chafe 

stuff 

above 

Ella 

Dave 

Jeff 

staff 

such 

beef 

Ora 

Gov. 

cake 

between 

Steve 

allay 

tough 

thick 

receipt 

EIGHT  DAYS  OUTING. 


In  May,  all  of  us  were  at  the  caves  in  the  woods 
for  eight  days,  and  such  days  as  these  were. 

At  this  cave,  as  you  may  know,  were  leaves  of  the  oak 
and  yew.    Leaf  on  leaf  lay  all  o'er  the  cave. 

"Gov.  Steve,"  as  Ora  and  Abbie  say,  Ella,  Ettie,  Eddie, 
Addie  and  Anna  were  all  out  on  the  bay  each  day.  Eddie 
and  Steve  were  to  row  as  Steve  knew  he  would  have  to  teach 
Addie  or  Ella  before  they  would  row,  so  he  gave  Ettie  a  fife 
and  Addie  a  bow. 

As  they  rowed  by  a  thick  oak,  Steve  saw  a  dove  on  a 
bough  above  and  said,  "Addie,  give  me  the  bow  and  I  will 
raise  it  and  aim  at  the  dove."  The  bow  was  a  stave  and 
the  stuff  in  the  bow  was  too  stiff  for  Steve,  so  the  dove  dove 
away. 

As  they  were  on  the  bay,  Eva,  Emma,  Dave  and  Jeff 
were  in  and  out  of  the  cave. 

They  saw  stock  in  the  rye,  nigh  by,  so  Dave  and  Jeff 
said  they  would  have  to  oust  the  stock.  As  they  were  away, 
a  thief,  up  in  the  edge  of  the  woods,  saw  between  the  boughs 
of  an  oak  and  a  yew,  Eva  give  Emma  a  cake,  and  as  Steve 
rowed  up  to  tha  cave,  the  thief  was  off,  cake  and  all. 

On  the  eighth  day,  we  ate  tough  beef  for  a  stew  and 
rowed  o'er  the  bay  to  our  house  at  the  Oaks. 

*See  page  63  for  the  rule  for  rounding  curves. 


LS.  NS  AND  MS  STROKES. 


Ls— /..ns./ ms. ) 

Vowels  and  rules  are  applied  the  same  to  those  strokes  as 
to  all  other  consonant  characters,  but  the  vowel  written  at 
the  end  of  these  strokes  is  read  between  the  sounds,  or  if 
two  vowels  are  written  at  the  end,  one  is  read  between  and 
the  other  after  both  sounds 


Necessary. .  ^rr^. .  .*. 

necessity . .  y^^-r?? " 

necessitate  ..^rrrrP../' 


C 

master. 


mister... 


miss 

misstress...  * * 

Messrs * 

most. ..>..... must. ......* 

answer,  ./....rr * 

since  /... signs. £/..* 

science.../ * 

sales... <i-*/. * 

less... — </.... * 

leases ^. * 

losses y. *., 

Lucy..w^..LizzywX^..* 

Lesley...--^ * 

loosely  ...J,-/. * 


24 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Niece 

mess 

less 

necessitate 

nice 

Miss 

lace 

necessity 

noose 

mice 

lease 

Misses 

news 

moose 

lose 

Mister 

nose 

muss 

lass 

mistress 

noise 

mass 

loss 

Master 

annoys 

moss 

laces 

Messrs. 

alms 

mouse 

leases 

answer 

amiss 

Moses 

losses 

allows 

Anna's 

Emma's 

necessary 

Messrs  Moses  and  Sims: 

In  answer  to  your  news  of  the  eighth,  will  say  it  is 
necessary  for  us  to  be  masters  of  most  of  the  Misses  Lucy 
and  Lizzie  Sims's  business. 

We  must  see  to  the  necessities  and  necessitate  them  to 
seek  no  alms  of  Mrs.  Sims's  sons. 

It  seems  to  us  that  if  you  lease  the  "Moose  House"  to 
your  niece  to  sell  eels,  seals,  signs,  moist  moss  and  nice  mice 
the  lass  will  lose  all  of  the  sales  on  laces;  as  the  mice  or  the 
mouse  will  muss  all  of  the  nice  lace  your  niece  has — ^and  of 
all  of  the  scenes! 

Miss  Lucy  aims  to  use  the  sums  from  these  sales  to  buy 
Psalms  that  have  not  an  ounce  of  sense,  and  may  soil  souls. 

Most  of  this  mess  of  business  will  be  due  to  your  niece's 
lease  of  the  "Moose  House." 

Your  nephew. 


THE  VOWELS  SHADED. 

At  the  beginning  of  an  outline  any  vowel  may  be  shaded 
for  the  sound  of  s  before  it,  and  any  vowel  following  conson- 
ant sounds  may  be  shaded  to  express  the  sound  of  s,  z,  sh, 
or  tion  following  It. 


Pays....V^ pace-.-V?. 


base.. ..SsO.... bays. .\£>....*. 

face...!o phase-..^...*  . 

sail.iQ-^...sale..Q^....  * 


race,  .-rrrff.  ...raise,  rrr:.' ... . 
cases. .  .9. . .  .occasion. .  .!^. 
cheese ^ *. 


juice \/%. 

sage...C his...^. * 

fish...\ cash.!T?W...* 

fashion.. \r ♦ 

notion  ....C-- ♦ 

motion. .y^ *.... 

mission...^ • 

caution. .r!\ * 

ocean .C *. 

oration.. frr:^. * 

said..  ^Sr77!>k...  some../ *. 

son...<? soon.../....*....... 

soilJ^.-Bessficf^..  * 


26 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Must 

looses 

boss 

fuss 

cell 

most 

pace 

bows 

sip 

sail 

since 

pies 

vase 

seep 

sill 

nice 

puss 

vice 

soup 

seal 

news 

pass 

vise 

soap 

sole 

owls 

pause 

views 

sob 

soul 

laces 

30se 

phase 

safe 

soil 

leases 

)ase 

face 

save 

losses 

bush 

fees 

sieve 

lasses 

bass 

fuse 

sell 

A  REST  FROM  BUSINESS  CARES. 


Mr.  A.  L.  Lewis,  who  gave  a  sale  at  his  house  a  few 
days  ago,  said  he  would  "hie"  to  the  sea  for  a  stay  of  a 
few  days,  although  all  of  his  ails  and  ills  were  due  to  his 
losses  in  business — on  laces. 

So  now  he  leases  the  "Ailes  House,"  a  house  in  a  leafy 
woods  at  the  base  of  a  hill  on  an  isle  of  the  sea,  where  he 
will  be  safe  from  his  business  foes  for  these  few  days,  also 
from  the  vice  of  city  society. 

The  eighth  day  he  was  away;  Anna,  a  niece  of  his,  said 
to  Will,  his  son,  "I  must  have  a  sail  o'er  the  bay  to  have 
a  view  of  the  face  of  my  father.  Ella  said  it  would  be  nice 
to  have  the  lasses,  Addie  and  Emma,  to  go  also,  as  it  may 
save  some  of  those  sobs,  since  we  were  to  stay  at  Abbic's 
house." 

The  Misses  Bessie  and  Lucy  Rose  and  Master  Ed  Russ 
are  each  to  have  a  pass  on  a  sail-boat  o'er  the  sea  and  they 
say  they  are  to  see  seals,  eels,  bass,  owls  and  nice  mice  as 
they  pass  this  isle. 

They  would  have  puss  with  them  in  the  sail-boat  if  puss 
would  not  cause  a  fuss  as  she  sees  the  mice. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


27 


Race 

soar 

seeks 

Jessie 

raise 

sour 

socks 

juice 

Reece 

sick 

sacks 

gaze 

rice 

seek 

chase 

guise 

ruse 

soak 

chess 

goose 

Russ — rush 

sack 

cheese 

Guss 

Rose 

cases 

choose 

gas 

rouse 

kisses 

chose 

gauze 

arouse 

keys 

choice 

sit 

sear 

accude 

sage 

sire 

Case 

guess 

sewer 

causes 

geese 

TEA  AT  FATHER'S  HOUSE. 


This  eve,  Guss  Reece,  Jesse  Ross,  Will  Russ,  Fay  Rose 
and  Sarah  Sells  are  to  have  tea  at  father's  house  in  the  woods 
by  the  bay.     Father's  niece  is  to  be  at  tea,  also. 

Guss  said,  "Mother  will  have  for  tea  a  goose,  rice,  cheese, 
cake  and  sour  juice."  So  you  know  Guss  will  be  sick,  as  he 
will  eat  too  much.  They  accuse  Guss  of  such.  He  said,  "The 
gas  may  cause  us  to  be  sick." 

As  soon  as  tea  is  o'er,  Guss  and  Jesse  choose  to  sit  at 
chess,  and  Will  and  Fay  say  they  will  upset  the  chess.  If 
they  do,  Guss  and  Jesse  will  give  them  a  chase  o'er  the  gauze 
sacks,  out  to  the  bay  where  they  will  have  to  soak  Will  in  the 
bay.  The  house  of  Dave  Russ  is  nigh  the  bay  and  Dave  is 
to  be  in  the  house  as  the  boys  have  the  chase  to  the  bay,  so 
that*  he  may  get  Will  out, — thatf  is,  if  the  boys  do  not  get 
into  the  sewer  before  they  set  upon  Will. 

Father's  niece  may  amuse  Will,  Fay  and  Sarah,  as  the 
boys  are  at  chess;  if  so,  Jesse  will  seek  the  aid  of  Sire  Russ, 
who  would  arise  to  aid  the  boys.  He  arose  to  aid  Guss  two 
days  ago  as  Jesse  would  raise  the  siege. 

Will  and  Jesse  are  to  have  a  race  in  gauze  socks  o'er 
bushes  for  some  geese,  if  so  be  they  arouse  Guss. 

*See  page  39  for  reversed  vowels. 

tSee  page  59  for  rule  for  lengthening  "aw." 


28  CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Seat 

sooth 

sad 

seize 

juicy 

sight 

this 

soda 

size 

Josie 

suit 

thus 

daze 

Sioux 

city 

soot 

those 

daisy 

sauce 

Sallie 

sat 

said 

dizzy 

cease 

Sarah 

sought 

Sadie 

dice 

stays 

solely 

'tis 

sod 

doze 

Bessie 

arise 

tease 

seep 

dues 

Lizzie 

Moses 

ties 

side 

douse 

Lucy 

arose 

toss 

sued 

says 

Rosie 

abuse 

A  COMPROMISE. 

As  Lucy  and  Lizzie  Moses  sat  on  a  low  seat  by  the  side 
of  a  rose-bush,  Josie  and  Bessie  sought  these  lasses  to  go 
to  the  city  that  they  might  see  the  sights  and  to  buy  a  new 
suit  for  Sarah  Poe. 

Thus,  'tis  said,  the  Misses  were  in  the  city  as  Will  Russ 
doused  Dave  Orr,  as  Dave  had  ceased  to  pay  his  association 
dues,  and  they  saw  Will  do  so. 

As  Lucy  saw  the  sad  face  of  Dave,  the  lass  said,  "Will, 
you  ought  not  to  thus  abuse  Dave."  Will  sought  to  tease  the 
Miss  and  said,  "I'll  toss  you  in,  too,  if  you  accuse  me  of  this 
before  the  judge,"  (you  know  Will  stays  at  Lucy's  house). 
So  Lucy  sought  to  soothe  Dave  and  gave  the  boy  a  soda  and 
a  juicy  sauce  as  a  dose  to  soothe  his  ills. 

Lizzie  said,  in  a  sad  way,  "I  thought  the  fall  would  daze 
you  or  cause  you  to  be  dizzy." 

Bessie  said,  "If  Dave  sues  Will,  I'll  say  all  I  choose  in  the 
case."  At  this,  the  Misses  sought  to  aid  Dave  to  arise  and 
said,  "You  may  go  to  our  house." 

Bessie  said,  "I  must  buy  some  seed  to  sow  in  the  sod  by 
the  side  of  the  daisies,  also  a  tie  for  Rosie. 

In  two  days  Dave  sued  Will,  and  as  Lucy  arose  to  give  a 
view  of  the  case,  Will  said,  "Cease  your  fuss,  have  Dave 
'size  it  up'  and  I'll  pay  him*  the  fee,  and  also  pay  for  a 
stew,  if  Abe,  the  lasses  and  their  beaux  will  go  to  a  cafe 
with  me." 

*See  page  49  for  rule  for  changing  circles  to  loops. 


THE  FOLLOWING  REVERSED  HOOK. 

Where  the  sound  of  "s,  shel  or  tion"  follows  a  consonant 
sound  and  no  vowel  is  recorded  at  the  end  of  its  outline  a 
reversed  narrow  hook  may  be  used  to  record  that  sound 


Apes ?^ *. 

action T\ *. 

section..... T\» *... 


saves \ *.. 

seeps .^ *. 

source...  Srrr:?. * 

assertion .  .frrTf.  ....*. . 

Persian . .  .Srrrff *. . 

suction 7^....*.  . 

auction....  !?\ *. 

sight....  f^r/. *.. 

commercial. .rr... IT..*. 

option  ....rVr* ^.. 

cooks. ..?7!W. *.. 

ours..s^ 
martial. 


partial..>rrrMc...*.. 
bushel.. Lj».... *. 


station/^..' *. 

nation..-^. *.. 

rotation.......,^ *... 


30 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Fashion 

occasion 

petition 

session 

ration 

cushion 

sedition 

imitation 

oration 

illusion 

citation 

notion 

Hessian 

caution 

sensation 

notation 

fusion 

quotient 

allusion 

motion 

ambition 

section 

illusion 

omission 

position 

lotion 

action 

association 

possession 

sufficient 

auction 

patients 

rotation 

addition 

nation 

society 

AN  ODD  PETITION. 


"Say,  Will,"  said  Jesse  Moses,  a  few  days  ago  as  he  saw 
Will  Reece  buy  some  lotions  at  an  auction,  "I  have  an  odd 
petition." 

"In  this  petition  is  a  citation  for  a  fusion  of  the  Hes- 
sian Association  and  the  Society  of  Hessians;  an  allusion 
to  the  secession  of  the  Hessians  from  the  Russian  Nation;  a 
caution  to  have  rations  ready  and  to  set  this  petition  in  rota- 
tion in  each  section  of  these  associations,  a  notation  and  an 
initiation  of  those  who  are  in  position  and  have  the  ambition 
sufficient  to  give  an  oration  on  the  occasion  of  this  sensation." 

"Now,  Jesse,"  said  Will,  "my  notion  is  that  the  mission 
of  the  action  for  the  emission  of  this  petition,  is  to  set  in 
motion  an  illusion;  and  if  you  will  have  the  patience  to  seek 
the  quotient  or  solution  of  this  petition,  you  may  see  a  patient, 
as  he  sits  on  a  cushion  in  a  house  adjacent  to  the  city  hall, 
occasion  an  addition  to  your  petition." 

"This  addition  is  the  omission  of  the  petition  and  it  will 
give  you  the  solution  of  this  sensation." 

"This  is  the  fashion  of  those  Hessians." 


THE  PRONOUNS  I  AND  WE. 


The  pronouns  I  and  we,  at  the  beginning  of  an  outline, 
may  be  blended  with  the  following  consonant  stroke  but 
they  must  be  made  long  and  narrow. 

The  I  curves  from  the  upper  or  right  side  of  straight  lines 
and  from  inside  of  all  curves. 

The  "we"  curves  the  opposite  way.  "We"  should  not  be 
joined  to  the  beginning  of  theh  or  sh  strokes,  but  itmay.be 
written  in  about  the  same  position  and  slightly  disjoined. 


1'\\....<J. we'll,  cr^  .....*.... 

V\eX We've..\., *.... 

I'd..  ^^rrrrN. we'd..  .«»rrrr^v..*  . 

I  may^ we  may. .V. * 

you  may  J^ . . ..we  know ...C....* 

we're.. crrr?.... we  had If....* . 

I  had...t-. you  had..!'.....*... 

we  get..J^....I  got..^ *.. 

I  wrote.'rr?;...!  thought. ^TX.. 

we  thought. /?:^TN. *.. 

I'ddoit..^jC7:>/:»... * 

I'm  to  see  you.  ..6^ * 

you'n  I  would,  .^u- *.. 


THE  SHADED  CONSONANTS. 

Any  consonant  character  may  *  Where  two  or  mdre  vowei 
be  shaded  for  the  following  *  sounds  are  used  in  the  word 
"t,th,  or  d"  sounds.  If  these  •  after  the  first  consonant 
sounds  are  not  needed  in  the  *  sound,  if  the  consonant  stroke 
word,  the  shading  may  add  •  expresses  more  than  one 
to  these  words,  the  words;  *  sound,  the  first  vowel  may  be 
to,  the,  do  or  would.  *  read  between  and  the  other 

•  be  read  after  the  last  conso- 

*  nant  sound. 

Pay...V* paid...Sf? * Pity  ....S* 


pate... ^...  apt..  !Sr. * ^....Bettie..Vsft 

obeyed. ..\j? * Bessie.... sjr 

fate..!^...  faded * .position... S; 

late ^...kiid.w/:....* potato... S^^^^... 

rate.-rrr^..raid.rrrr^..* Lottie  v/T. 

height.. U.. hide.,  .u * Louis P. 


had....lr what..! * lady  ...^. 

could.. 7>.... lazy-*?.  ...* Hattie...lr 

good...C get./ * accusation..  !7\u. 

^  .  ^  dado...r:rnT:6 

read.rrr:f..write.'rT:=^::* duty../rrTT7rrv>...... 

did/!^rrTrb..not...^ * beauty.. .L-rt 

stood. /?.....  study.. ^....* rotation b.... 

past..  St.... pastor.. v.... * quotient..^ 

futile.. .No * tuition.... si<» 

institution..  iTT. • notation.... b. 

bounty.... V..^ • ,„ body....ys-o « 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


33 


Bate 

date 

fed 

debt 

heed 

fate 

made 

let 

net 

wheat 

fade 

mate 

led 

Ned 

cheat 

rate 

maid 

red 

met 

deed 

hate 

state 

head 

stead 

need 

Kate 

estate 

whet 

beat 

meet 

cased 

saved 

jet 

feet 

mead 

gate 

sailed 

get 

feed 

dead 

gait 

saint 

Teddie 

lead 

HOW  NED  MEAD  MET  HIS  FATE. 


Teddie  Russ,  a  neighbor  boy,  was  at  our  house  today  and 
said  that  an  old  mate  of  the  father  of  Ned  Mead  (a  lad  who 
used  to  mow  wheat  for  us)  was  dead  and  had  made  Ned 
his  sole  heir  to  a  neat  estate  in  the  state  of  Missouri — He 
made  a  deed  to  the  boy. 

Teddie  said  that  the  boy,  on  his  way  to  St.  Louis,  met 
his  fate  in  the  way  of  a  nice  maid,  Miss  Kate  Reed. 

It  was  this  way:  Ned  let  his  steed  go  at  a  high  rate  and 
paid  no  heed  to  its  gait.  As  he  rushed  past  the  feed  gate 
of  an  estate,  an  old  red  cow  sallied  out  into  the  road;  the 
steed  stopped*  and  he  fellt  onto  the  steed,  caught  his  foot 
in  the  net  and  hit  his  head  on  a  post  of  a  sty. 

Kate  Reed,  a  good  maid  of  the  estate,  saw  the  boy  and 
thought  he  was  dead.  He  was  sick  and  in  bed  at  the  maid's 
house  for  five  days.  The  lass  made  a  stew  of  meat  and  fed 
the  lad,  also  bathed  his  head,  and  thus  saved  him. 

As  Kate  had  so  saved  him,  he  said  he  did  not  know  how 
he  could  pay  the  debt  and  that  he  hated  to  cheat  so  nice 
a  maid.  So  Kate  said,  "Why  not  wed?"*  and  the  lad  said, 
"I  had  not  thought  of  that."  Thus  he  met  his  fate  and  Kate 
set  the  date  and  said,  "Now,  father,  you  may  call  me  Mrs. 
Mead,  if  I  am  not  too  late."  So,  on  the  date  set,  they  passed 
o'er  the  mead  to  his  estate,  as  fast  as  the  feet  of  his  steed 
could  beat  the  road  to  meet  the  judge  who  wrote  the  deed 
so  that  they  might  be  wed  on  his  estate  that  day. 

*  See  page     41  for  expressing  "p"  sound. 

tSee  page  101  for  the  "fl"  stroke. 

tSee  page    88  for  the  combined  vowel  "we".  \ 


jquit 

rot 

not 

height 

did 

rod 

lied 

hide 

knit 

hot 

jite 

white 

mit 

hod 

abide 

kite 

amid 

cot 

fight 

chide 

knight 

jot 

write 

guide 

pot 

got 

light 

quite 

?od 

30t 

God 

rite 

tight 

tot 

Wright 

tied 

lot 

dot 

right 

night 

34  CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 

Bit 

bid 

lit 

writ 

lid 

rid 

hit 

hid 

kit 

kid 

A  WRIT  ON  THE  RITES  OF  THE  ODD  FELLOWS. 

Mr.  M.  A.  Wright,  a  mill*-wright,  who  wrought  a  mill 
on  the  mead,  had  a  writ  on  the  rites  of  the  I.  0.  0.  F.,  that 
a  knight  who  stayed  at  White's  sought  to  get. 

Amid  Wright's  haste  to  hide  the  writ,  he  forgot  that  his 
tot  of  two  lay  on  a  cot  not  a  rod  away. 

The  tot  saw  his  father,  as  he  did  this,  got  up,  caught 
up  the  writ  and  hid  it  in  Pat  Nye's  hod  the  night  before  Pat 
quit  Wright. 

The  knight  knew  of  this  and  had  Pat  leave  his  kit  of 
tools,  that  had  the  hod  in  it,  at  Joe  White's  house. 

In  the  night,  Joe  ope'd  the  kit,  although  the  lid  was 
tight,  and  spied*  an  old  mitt  tied  to  the  lid  of  the  kit.  So 
Joe  called  for  a  light  that  he  might  see  what  was  in  the  kit. 
As  soon  as  he  got  the  light,  he  saw  right  away  that  it  was 
Wright's  writ. 

To  save  a  fight,  Joe  did  not  write  a  jot  about  this,  but 
bade  Lot,  his  son,  ride  to  Wright's  and  give  it  to  him,  e'er 
Wright  sued  the  knight. 

Dot  said,  "I  hid  your  writ"  and  the  father  essayed  to 
chide  the  tot;  but  the  tot  said  he  thought  it  was  right,  so  the 
father  did  not  chide. 

Now,  Pat  was  to  abide  at  Joe  White's  and  guide  the 
knight  o'er  the  mead  to  the  mill  that  night;  so  they  saw  Lot 
ere  he  was  quite  to  Wright's  house,  sought  the  heights,  and 
rode  in  haste  to  chide  the  boy — it  was  a  hot  race  but  the 
boy  led. 

Pat  raised  his  bow  and  aimed  at  the  boy,  but  the  arrow 
hit  a  pied  kid  that  was  in  a  lot  nigh  the  boy's  steed. 

♦See  page  115  for  the  ml  stroke. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Naughty 

boat 

foot 

Lloyd 

who'd 

might 

abode 

fat 

route 

hood 

mite 

about 

fad 

rude 

hut 

beauty 

Boyd 

fought 

root 

hat 

boot 

put 

vote 

rut 

had 

but 

Pat 

avowed 

rat 

what 

bud 

pout 

load 

wrought 

cute 

bat 

vat 

loud 

wrote 

cut 

bought 

food 

aloud 

road 

:aught 

MR.  LLOYD  WOOD. 


Mr.  Lloyd  Wood  had  six  good  sized  loads  of  wood  nigh 
his  hut  by  the  side  of  the  road,  but  he  did  not  know  how  he 
would  get  them  cut. 

He  saw  Lee  Boyd,  a  good  sized  lad,  in  a  boat  today  on 
his  way  to  his  father's  hut;  so  he  called  aloud  to  the  lad  and 
said,  "Lee!  Lee!  Will  you  cut  my  wood  and  put  it  into  my 
house  for  me?"  Lee  said  he  would. 

Mr.  Lloyd  paid  the  lad  and  gave  a  load  of  the  wood 
and  some  good  food  to  his  sick  mother. 

Mrs.  Boyd  wrote  to  Mr.  Lloyd  and  said,  "I  might  pay  for 
the  food."  He  said,  "No,  but  as  the  rats  about  our  house 
are  bad  you  might  let  your  cat  stay  at  our  house  for  a  few 
days."  This  Mrs.  Boyd  did  and  it  caused  Maude,  a  cute  maid 
of  five,  to  pout. 

Mr.  Lloyd  bought  a  nice  hood  for  Maude,  and  for  Lee,  he 
bought  new  boots  and  a  bat,  so  Lee  said  he  was  good,  and 
avowed  he  would  vote  for  Mr.  Lloyd. 

Mrs.  Boyd  was  so  wrought  up  she*  almost  cried.f 

Lee  got  his  hat  and  said,  as  Mr.  Lloyd  had  paid  his 
mother  to  have  the  wood  cut,  it  would  be  rude  to  put  it  off. 

That  night  he  got  a  beauty  rose  for  Maude  and  the  mite 
of  a  maid  said  Lee  was  a  knight.  These  words  were  a  fad 
that  Maude  had. 

Lee  said,  "Maude,  your  cat  caught  a  fat  rat  by  the  foot 
nigh  a  vat  and  it  fought,  but  pussy  put  it  to  rout." 

*See  page    94  for  the  sh  stroke. 

tSee  page  107  for  the  kr  stroke. 


36 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Coat 

good 

thawed 

mud 

about 

code 

gad 

dude 

mat 

amused 

cowed 

goat 

duds 

Maude 

paste 

accused 

gout 

dad 

mad 

best 

cast 

quote 

doubt 

mode 

baste 

cost 

taught 

dote 

amid 

beast 

coast 

that 

gnat 

stout 

boast 

chat 

thought 

note 

stood 

supposed 

MAT  AND  HIS  GOAT. 


Mat  Stout,  who  stays  about  our  estate,  stood  on  the 
coast  of  the  sea  and  amused  us  at  the  cost  of  a  goat. 

The  beast  was  mute,  but,  by  and  by,  got  mad  at  Mat. 

Maude  Post  thought  it  was  not  best,  and  said,  "Mat,  let 
us  have  a  chat  on  your  code  of  laws  about  the  beast.  I 
doubt  not  that  your  mother  taught  you  a  code  of  laws  such 
as  these;  but  Mat  did  not  dote  on  a  chat  and  g^ot  mad  at 
Maude  just  as  his  dad  passed  and  saw  it  all. 

Maude  accused  Mat  of  abuse  of  the  goat,  and  his  father 
said,  "I  have  a  good  gad  and  I  ought  to  use  it  on  you." 
Mat  was  cowed,  and  his  sire  said,  "I  quote  my  laws  to  you, 
note  it  well  my  boy;  be  good  to  that  beast  or  it  will  cost  you 
the  most," 


THE  L  FOLLOWING  A  VOWEL. 

L  following  any  vowel,  excepting  circle  vowels,  may  be 
expressed  by  recording  such  vowel  characters  exceedingly 
small.    But  the  syllables  "el,  il  or  ly"  may  be  recorded  by 

adding  an  extra  short  e  or  short  1  circle slightly  disjoined 

if  danger  of  confusing  with  the  expression  of  short  e  or 
short  1. 

If  an  outline  is  shaded  in  any  way,  the  shading  is  read 
after  the  following  vowel  and  before  the  1  sound  excepting 
when  joined  to  the  g  stroke  in  which  instance  the  1  may  be 
read  before  the  following  vowel  or  immediately  after. 


Glow.Q gold..(^...*.. 

glee.(,. ga.\e..Q...*... 

lull.I/.,  lilly....-!/..*.. 

Lowell.^ •• 

loyal.. -rf^...  while..] *... 


child... v.... chill. 

jewel C> * 

style. ..<?. *.. 

stole. .f?. *.. 

al  though..  Krrr^ *. 

also....< *.. 

always. .& *.. 

bottle.. .L^ *... 

battle.. ...V^ *.... 

chattel. 


< 


wrestle.  .TTTT. *. 


449499 


38 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Polly 

roily 

fully 

rally 

Bailey 

hilly 

Billy 

holly 

folly 

wheel 

valley 

whale 

volley 

while 

lull 

whole 

Lowell 

Kelly 

huddle 

whittle 

acquittal 

toddle 

nettle 

needle 

really 

chilly 

.lelly 

tally 

style 

jolly 

daily 

paddle 

child 

duly 

battle 

quilt 

dally 

beetle 

gilt 

Stella 

bottle 

quill 

Alps 

fiddle 

gold 

also 

futile 

jolt 

always 

vital 

title 

cattle 

little 

kettle 

tattle 

chattel 

metal 

model 

total 

quail 

almost 

quality 

petal 

A  RIDE  TO  ITALY. 


A  gale  from  the  Alps,  that  was  really  chilly,  passed 
o'er  a  model  valley  as  Polly  Lowell,  Billy  Kelly,  Stella  Gould 
and  Lillie  Dailey  rode  on  wheels  past  a  little  child  that  could 
but  toddle. 

Although  the  child  was  guileless,  it  had  some  holly  and 
a  lily — also  some  jelly  (on  its  face).  From  the  posies  it 
pulled  the  petals  and  put  some  into  a  bottle  with  a  needle, 
some  into  a  kettle  and  the  rest  onto  a  quilt.  While  it  did  so, 
the  rattle  of  our  wheels  caused  a  whole  lot  of  cattle  to  huddle 
to  one  side  of  the  road. 

It  seemed  that  this  chattel  was  the  cattle  of  the  child's 
father.     The  father  had  a  royal  title. 

This  was  vital  to  them  so  they  duly  rallied  to  the  aid  of 
the  child;  the  act  was  futile,  for  Billy  Kelly  got  a  jolt  as 
his  wheel  hit  a  piece  of  metal  that  he  thought  was  gold.  He 
lit  into  a  nettle  bed  and  had  a  battle  with  a  lot  of  beetles. 
He  soon  saw  his  folly. 

They  tried  to  pedal  away,  but  a  volley  of  words  from 
the  "Royal  Quill"  caused  them  to  quail  so  they  were  not  so 
jolly.  As  soon  as  there  was  a  lull  in  the  volley  of  words 
they  got  the  father's  acquittal. 

Stella  said  that  the  boys  of  quality  would  be  in  style 
if  they  had  a  quail's  quill  in  the  hat. 

Billy  said  Lillie  would  jilt  the  fellow,  that  would  tattle. 

They  saw  a  pulley  in  a  roily  pool  and  Stella  said, 
"Those  pullies  almost  always  tally  with  the  whale-rope  on 
the  ocean." 

On  the  road  to  Italy,  Billy  whittled  a  fiddle  to  a  total 
waste. 


VOWELS  REVERSED. 

Where  vowels  can  be  conveniently  joined  in  a  reversed 
way  from  which  they  are  joined  in  preceding  lessons,  they 
may  be  so  recorded  to  express  the  sounds  of  "r.  rg,  rj,  rk 
or  rch"  followmg  them. 

If  an  outline  is  shaded  in  any  way,  the  shading  is  read 
after  the  followmg  vowel  and  before  the  "r"  sound 


pastor. 


40 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Fetter 

foster 

forge 

Luther 

heater 

feather 

patter 

fork 

ladder 

header 

feeder 

pastor 

argue 

racer 

hither 

father 

poster 

dark 

reader 

hatter 

fodder 

bitter 

Mark 

Rider 

cuter 

fighter 

butter 

rear 

writer 

chatter 

future 

lark 

rare 

rather 

stutter 

fatter 

large 

roar 

eraser 

madder 

voter 

hark 

sister 

daughter 

mitre 

faster 

whether 

matter 

gaiter 

mother 

whiter 

thither 

resource 

roster 

rooster 

MARK  LUTHER  AND  HIS  FOSTER  FATHER. 


As  Mark  Luther  wasted  some  of  the  resources  of  his 
foster  father,  who  was  a  feeder  of  cattle,  on  fast  racers  that 
he  rode  hither  and  thither,  he  forged  his  own  fetters  for  the 
future. 

He  was  a  writer  for  "The  Leader"  and  a  reader  of  it. 
The  matter  he  wrote  was  a  cater  to  the  voters  who  were 
fighters. 

The  more  he  wrote  the  madder  was  his  father  whose 
words  were  quite  bitter,  for  he  did  not  care  whether  his  foster 
son  succeeded  or  not.    He  would  rather  that  he  would  not. 

They  used  to  argue  way  into  the  dark  about  the  cost  of 
the  posters. 

A  few  days  ago,  as  the  father  sold  some  of  his  fatter 
cattle  that  he  fed  on  fodder,  this  son  saw  some  feathers  of  a 
lark  (that  he  thought  were  rare). 

He  put  these  feathers  into  a  roster  that  his  father  had 
kept  for  Kis  voters.  A  large  rooster  had  caught  the  lark  on  a 
ladder  that  lay  at  the  forks  of  the  road. 

Will  Rider,  who  was  a  hatter,  sold  the  father  a  header,  a 
heater,  a  mitre  and  some  gaiters  for  the  two  daughters  (one 
that  stutters  and  a  sister  that  was  some  whiter  and  would 
chatter  about  a  cuter  sister). 

The  mother  sold  a  cow,  that  the  son  raised  from  a  calf, 
to  the  pastor  so  that  the  pastor  would  not  have  to  buy  butter. 


OUTLINES  WRITTEN  BELOW  THE  LINE.         41 


Rp-rb..r-.....Shp..  y...mp-mb  r.-sp-sub^, — 

Vowels  and  rules  are  applied  the  same  to  the  above  strokes 
as  to  all  other  consonant  characters. 

Any  outline  may  be  written  below  the  line  of  writing  to 
express  the  following  p  or  b  sounds.  If  these  sounds  are  not 
needed  in  the  word,  the  words;  "up,  "be"  or  "to  be"  may 
be  added  to  the  word  instead. 


TvppwritPr    ^^     ^  ^ *. 

Ship. ..  .\ .  .shape. ..  ?N  .^;^.  .* . 

shop..\ map (.. *. 

spy.  >«»•. -submit....^ *. 

are  to  be *. 


had  to  be...... copy ».....*. 

could  be...._^. *. 

repeat.. rr*.... report..:^ *. 

library.  .^^Arrrf.rope  ..t^ * . 

liberty yrrff. *• 

Repub *. 

February..., *. 

publish..., *. 

I'm  to  be.. ...y *. 

you  buy  up.......... *. 

respectfully.  ."^. *.. 


42 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Peep 

fob 

reporter 

sheep 

spade 

pop 

fop 

repay 

shop 

sped 

pipe 

vapor 

Repub. 

map 

speed 

pup 

leap 

rebate 

may  be 

spot 

pope 

lop 

reaper 

mope 

spied 

bub 

loop 

wrapper 

lump 

spat 

babe 

lap 

repute 

lamp 

spice 

bib 

elope 

repose 

lumber 

suppose 

Bob 

liberty 

shape 

space 

espouse 

imbibe 

library 

ship 

spies 

spite 

A  REPORTER'S  INTERVIEW. 

A  reporter  of  some  repute,  a  fop,  who  wore  an  odd  shaped 
fob  and  an  elaborate  wrapper,  peeped  into  Bob  White's  shop 
on  the  ship  as  Bob  had  an  old  pipe  in  his  mouth  and  imbibed 
the  vapor  that  seemed  to  have  a  spicy  taste  as  it  arose  out 
of  the  pipe. 

A  lamp  was  by  his  side  as  he  espied  the  reporter.  A 
babe,  that  sat  on  a  tub  and  had  a  pup  in  its  lap,  leaped  up 
as  the  pup  hopped  to  a  library  stool. 

The  reporter  said,  "Bub,  what  a  nice  bib  you  have?"  To 
Mr.  White  he  said,  "Is  this  Mr.  White?  I  am  a  reporter  on 
the  Repub.  and  I  wish  to  have  the  liberty  to  espouse  your 
cause.  I  was  on  the  spot  as  you  and  Mr.  Pope  were  supposed 
to  have  a  spat  about  the  speed  of  an  ape  as  it  sped  by  you. 

"As  a  spy,  I  see  the  lump  on  your  face  where  he  hit 
you  as  you  mopped  him  in  the  mud,  and  I  have  a  map  of  the 
lot.  It  may  be  you'll  let  me  know  where  you  stood.  In  spite 
of  what  some  say,  I  thought  you  stood  by  that  spade  and 
he  by  the  lumber  you  were  to  use  to  build*  your  new  house. 

"Now  if  you'll  repose  your  case  in  me,  I  may  get  a  nice 
rebate  for  you." 

"Now,  Mr.  Reporter,"  said  Bob,  "let  me  suggest  to  you 
that  on  the  day  you  saw  us  in  a  fight,  Mr.  Pope  was  in 
Europe  and  I  was  in  the  South  Seas,  just  oflF  Cape  Good 
Hope." 

♦  See  Page  97  for  the  bl  stroke. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND.  43 


Heep 

cop 

chubby 

top 

to  be 

hop 

cob 

chap 

type 

they'd  be 

hub 

coop 

job 

tube 

will  be 

happy 

cup 

Joppa 

tub 

it'd  be 

hope 

cope 

jab 

dip 

stop 

whip 

captain 

gap 

deep 

steep 

whoop 

cheap 

equip 

tape 

stoop 

kept 

chip 

tap 

dope 

stab 

cape 

chop 

topple 

knob 

stub 

keep 

chapel 

tabby 

step 

CAPTAIN  POWELL'S  JAP.* 

Captain  Powell  was  a  happy,  chubby  chap,  who  kept  a 
cheap  Jap,  whose  duty  it  was  to  aid  the  captain.  The  cap- 
tain equipped  him  with  a  whip,  a  coat,  a  cape  with  a  red  tape 
on  it,  and  a  cap  so  that  he  might  go  to  Joppa. 

As  the  Jap  had  to  pass  through*  the  deep  woods,  he 
made  a  bow  out  of  the  wood  of  an  old  oak  hoop  and  arrows 
of  the  same  oak. 

At  eve,  as  the  sun  was  low,  he  stopped  by  a  rill  and 
dipped  his  cup  into  it  for  a  sup  of  its  cool  bubbles,  just  as 
the  captain  and  a  "cop"  got  out  of  a  cab.  The  captain  had 
the  Jap  get  two  cups  for  the  "cop"  and  him. 

He  kept  the  Jap  on  the  hop,  as  the  Jap  had  to  heap 
chips  and  cobs  to  boil  chops  for  them,  for  the  captain  had 
hoped  to  be  in  Joppa  by  eight  for  "taps." 

The  Jap  set  a  tub  of  dope  on  top  of  a  stoop  as  the 
"cop"  passed  up  the  steps.  The  "cop"  stubbed  his  toe  and 
passed  into  the  tub,  daubed  his  "royal  robe"  in  the  mud  and 
jabbed  his  foot  into  the  eye  of  a  tabby  cat. 

On  the  way  to  Joppa,  the  captain  had  a  mishap.  As  he 
passed  nigh  a  gap,  the  hub  of  his  cab  "gave  way"  and  he, 
the  "cop"  and  the  cab  looped  the  loop. 

I  might  write  a  lot  of  this,  but  it  would  be  of  the  same 
type.    This  is  all  you  need  to  write  on  the  typewriter. 

*  See  page  119  for  the  "thr"  stroke. 

*  Slang.  .  : 


44  PHRASING  BY  PRINCIPLE. 


If  it  only  requires  part  of  an  outline  to  express  a  word, 
other  vowel  or  consonant  characters  may  be  joined  to  that 
outline  to  produce  following  words 


Ape  ate. 


^. 


Abe  had  to  be.p *. 

Abe  ought  to  be  ^ *. 

you  have  th...\,.^. *. 

you  have  had...V *• 

I  have  it \ *. 

you  have  us...>y *. 

we  have  these  .\r7 *. 

we  leased. -c--^. * 

Ilost...j=-^ * 

sell  it.. a--?. *. 

seal  it..«—<< *. 

we  areto..r^.;r. *. 


you  are  as.. .777::^ '. 

we  are  at. .^^TTT, *. 


I  had  to  be..p *. 

we  could  be....G^ ...*. 

I  caused..... r. *. 

He  got  to  be  a..  J» *, 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND.  45 


You  pay  it  I  had  to  see  you         save  these 

you  buy  the  we  have  to  see  your  save  those 

you  be  at  we've  had  to  pay      save  us 

we  paid  up  we  have  to  pay        save  all  th 

Abe  ought  I've  had  to  pay  yoursave  your 

we  put  up  if  you  would  be        save  that 

I  passed  up  if  I  would  be  safe  at 

Al  bought  up  if  we  would  be  see  if  he  would 

we  have  had  if  they  would  be        see  if  you  will 

you  have  it  if  he  would  be  see  if  you  are  to 

we  have  those  save  this 


THE  SALE  OF  A  TYPEWRITER. 

Joseph  Wright  has  a  nice  typewriter  that  you  ought  to 
have.  You  buy  it.  His  sum  is  sixty-five.  You  pay  for  it 
and  we'll  pay  you  that  for  it,  if  you  do  not  need  the  type- 
writer. We  have  to  pay  as  high  as  eighty-five  for  the  type- 
writer we  now  use. 

I've  had  to  pay  your  father  fifty-five  for  old  typewriters, 
and  we've  had  to  pay  Abe  Reed  as  high  as  the  sum  of  sixty- 
two  for  these.  Some  years  ago  we'd  buy  new  typewriters  for 
ninety-eight  and  now  we  have  to  pay  for  new  typewriters 
eighty-nine. 

I  do  not  know  what  to  do.  If  you  would  be  at  Mr. 
Wright's  I  would  have  to  see  what  typewriter  was  the  best 
for  me  to  buy. 

If  I'm  not  at  Wright's,  Abe  ought  to  be  in  the  office 
and  he  will  aid  you.  You  be  at  Wright's  by  five  'n  I  will 
see  if  he  would  be  in  the  office. 

You  see  we  have  those  old  typewriters  that  we  may  use, 
and  may  save  this  sixty-five.  I  wish  to  save  all  of  the  cash, 
as  I  have  to  see  you  the  ninth  of  Sept.  They  say  Al  bought 
up  all  of  the  old  typewriters  that  Wright  had. 

You  may  have  all  of  these,  save  those  for  sixty-each. 


46  CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 

Say  less  we  lay  it  who  would  have  had 

see  less  we  lease  it  who  would  have  it 

saw  Lloyd  I  lost  all  who  would  have  these 

sell  it  I  lay  up  who  would  know 

sell  your  we  laid  up  who  would  not  know 

sell  all  you  light  up  who  would  have  to  be 

sell  out  I  had  to  be  who  would  have  us 

sail  out  who  would  see  he  would  have  had 

we  let  you  who  would  have  he  would  not  be 

DID  LLOYD  SELL  COOPER'S  HAT? 

Artie  Reed  met  Bob  Cooper  and  said,  Bob,  did  Lloyd 
sell  your  old  hat?    Why?  said  Bob. 

I  saw  Lloyd  sell  out  and  sail  out  to  sea,  and  I  thought  I 
saw  him  sell  it.  He  said  we  let  you  have  it.  I  saw  less  at 
the  sale  today,  and  I  see  less  and  less  at  each  successive  sale. 
Who  would  have  had  this  old  hat? 

Who  would  have  had  it?    Why,  I  would  have  had  it. 

Who  would  have  had  all  of  this  or  who  would  have  these? 

Why,  Artie,  he  would  have  had  all  of  these,  if  he  had 
not  sold  them.  Say,  Artie,  do  you  own  the  house  you  stay 
in? 

No,  we  lease  it.    I  lost  all  I  had  at  the  races. 

Did  you  have  the  cash? 

I  laid  up  cash  and  I  do  lay  up  cash. 

It  is  now  quite  late,  will  you  light  up? 

I  might,  but  as  soon  as  I  do,  I  must  go  to  my  house.  So, 
Good-night. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


47 


We  could  see  you 
you  could  see  us 
we  caught  you 
I  called  up 
we  case  it 
I  chose  it 
I  chose  to  be 
you  choose  it 


we  got  it  up 
you  get  up  a 
each  would  be 
such  would  be 
each  had  to  be 
sought  to  be 
we  test  your 
I  thought  you 


we  cause  it  to  be 
we  quote  you 
each  ought  to  be 
such  ought  to  be 
it  had  to  be 
ought  to  see  us 
sought  to  see  us 
it  would  be 


RUBE  ROBERTS'  SAIL  ON  THE  BAY. 


"Why,  Rube  Roberts,  where  were  you  all  day?" 

"The  Rose  boys  and  I  got  up  a  sail  and  we  were  in  our 
sail-boat  on  the  bay.  We  could  see  you  on  that  high  hill 
nigh  Wright's  Hall.  You  could  have  seen  us.  We  had  a  nice 
day  of  it,  as  the  air  was  as  light  as  a  zephyr  and  the  sails 
were  all  new." 

"You  ought  to  have  called  up  Lloyd  Abbott,  Roy  Haight 
and  Ella  Wright.  They  would  have  had  a  nice  day  of  it, 
also.  I  called  you  up  and  you  were  away,  and  so  you  caused 
it  to  be  as  it  was." 

"We  could  not  get  you  and  so  didn't  call  them.  Oh !  You 
chose  it  to  be  so.    I  knew  naught  about  it." 

"You  get  up  a  sail  in  a  few  days.  You  ought  to  test 
your  boat  and  see  that  it  is  good.  If  you  do,  we  will  all  be 
in  it.  We  had  to  test  our  boat  and  it  was  a  siege  but  the 
siege  had  to  be  made.  Did  we  test  your  boat?  Oh,  no,  we 
knew  you  would  do  it. 

"If  you  get  up  the  sail,  each  ought  to  be  on  the  quay  by 
eight  or  nine.  Such  would  be  my  idea  and  such  ought  to  be 
yours." 


48  CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


I  thought  to  be  I  am  to  be  some  had  to  be 

as  though  it  would  be  I  am  at  same  as 

so  they  would  be  you  and  I'd  be  as  soon  as 

so  they  would've  had  we  note  seen  to  be 

say  these  would  be  I  knew  it  seem  to  be 

saw  that  you  we  miss  it  not  to  be 

say  this  is  to  be  I  knew  that  sent  to  be 

oath  had  to  be  I  missed  you  we  know  it 

I  would  see  that  we  must  be  would  be 

you  would  date  you  must  have  had    we  knew  it 


THE  TWO  AUTOMOBILES. 

Mr.  J.  M.  Lloyd's  father  bought  for  him  a  new  auto.,  as 
soon  as  he  knew  it  would  be  safe  for  J.  M.  to  have  it. 

Mr.  R.  L.  Boyd  bought  a  new  auto,  for  his  niece,  Bessie, 
but  J.  M.  did  not  know  it. 

A  few  days  ago  he  met  Miss  Bessie  and  said,  "I  am  to 
have  a  ride  in  my  new  auto.    Do  you  not  wish  to  ride  in  it?" 

"Oh,  no,  I  have  an  auto  of  my  own ;  I'm  to  be  in  my  auto, 
on  my  way  to  Oak  Valley.  I  thought  to  be  on  my  way  by 
day-light,  but  I  missed  you  and  I  knew  that  you  wished  to 
be,  and  would  be  on  the  way  if  you  knew  we  were  to  go. 

"They  say  this  is  to  be  a  nice  day,  the  same  as  Sunday. 
It  seems  to  be  nice  now  and  we  must  have  a  good  ride  o'er 
the  paved  roads.  Where  were  you  last  Sunday?  I  saw  that 
you  had  an  auto,  and  you  must  have  had  a  nice  ride." 

"Our  society  had  a  meet  at  Poe  Valley;  some  ha(i  to  be 
there*  by  nine,  and  I  knew  that  I  would  have  to  see  that 
they  were  all  out.  So,  they  would  have  had  me  on  oath,  and 
what  could  I  say?  The  oath  had  to  be  and  they  would  see 
that  I  made  it." 


CIRCLES  CHANGED  TO  LOOPS.  49 


Any  circle  may  be  changed  to  loops  to  express  the  follow- 
ing n  or  m  sound 

enough....  A * 

into..'?^^r>'...ten...S^..* 

indeed..  ^....:7:^ * 

them./r?\.  agent.. ^..* 

interest..  W> * 

institution.. (Tt! * 

embody  ...v.^ * 

impose...  !Sl.'. *■ 

imbibe...-. * , 

engage j^ * .., ,... 

inroad.  .f?rrt..... ....* .-. 


when....!. again  .L.*. 


been  Vo.... open. 

lessen  , — <<. *.... 

came. !Tj&... cousin...^..* 

chain.. ^...  stain,  yfp .* 

name./^.....main./!\...*.,^. 


whence.,..] *. 

invention/: . .  C *• 

intention.. 'Srr^ *. 

mention.../^ *. 


50 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Pen 

bend 

faint 

reign 

him 

pence 

Bain 

fence 

rain 

hymn 

pain 

bin 

lain 

rein 

hint 

pane 

bean 

lane 

wren 

when 

paint 

vent 

lend 

rinse 

whence 

pin 

event 

lean 

rim 

whim 

opinion 

vim 

Linn 

ream 

cane 

open 

evince 

limb 

hame 

kin 

Ben 

fin 

limp 

hem 

came 

bent 

feign 

lint 

hence 

BEN  LYON'S  REWARD. 


Ben  Lyons  bent  o'er  the  fence  of  a  cow-pen  by  the 
side  of  an  oak,  as  the  rain  rinsed  the  rim  of  his  hat. 

He  fain  would  have  been  at  the  fane  whence  floated*  a 
hymn  of  beauty  through*  an  open  pane,  but  a  whim  of  his 
kin  had  lain  in  his  way,  and  hence  to  the  lane  he  bent  his 
steps. 

He  gave  vent  to  his  opinion  as  he  said,  "I'll  evince  to 
him  that  he  is  the  bane  of  my  vim." 

As  he  passed  the  fence  that  his  father  had  him  paint, 
he  saw  a  wren  that  had  cut  its  limb  on  a  pin  in  the  fence. 
It  lay  limp  on  a  bean  vine*  in  a  field  of  cane.  He  hid  it, 
away  in  the  hem  of  his  coat  and  allayed  the  pain  with  the 
sap  of  cane. 

An  old  hen,  that  had  been  out  in  all  the  rain,  he  put 
in  the  pen  and  fed  again. 

He  rubbed  the  lint  off  the  hames  and  put  them  on  old 
Ned,  so  that  he  might  go  to  get  some  quince. 

His  mother  gave  the  father  a  hint  that  the  boy  was 
sad,  so  he  gave  the  boy  a  few  pennies  to  repay  him  for  the 
events  of  the  day. 

Then  Ben  said,  as  he  went  to  bed,  "That  is  not  so  bad." 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


51 


Kent 

cone 

then 

steam 

keen 

acquaint 

thence 

esteem 

cousin 

Quincy 

intense 

indent 

chain 

ten 

thin 

dentist 

chin 

tent 

dent 

quince 

gem 

intent 

dense 

name 

gent 

intend 

dame 

intention 

Jane 

tense 

dim 

interest 

Jim 

tame 

dean 

instead 

den 

taint 

main 

invest 

again 

tin 

stem 

inert 

against 

tint 

stain 

agent 

team 

inlet 

AN  ESTATE  ON  THE  THAMES. 

Jim  Kent  of  Quincy,  said  his  intentions  were  to  invest 
in  an  estate  in  which  a  Dane  whose  name  was  Jean,  had 
an  interest. 

The  Dane's  cousin  said  he  would  act  as  agent,  as  Jim 
was  rather  inert  at  business,  and  the  Dane  was  keen  to  sell 
it;  the  Dane  said  his  cousin  might  sell  it  for  him.  For  a 
while,  the  cousin  was  quite  tense,  but  at  last  sold  it  for  quite 
a  gain. 

Jim  got  a  team  and  asked  the  cousin  to  go  hence  and 
acquaint  him  with  the  estate.  The  cousin  said  it  was 
situated  just  off  the  Thames,  nigh  London,  *  England,  on 
an  inlet  of  the  sea  in  a  dense  wood  and  he  did  not  intend  to 
use  a  team  to  go. 

He  said  that  it  was  a  gem,  as  it  was  quite  a  chain  of 
isles  and  on  the  isles  were  ten  dens,  and  an  immense  lot  of 
tame  game.  That  he  and  Jean  had  been  o'er  the  main  isles 
again  and  again.  That  they  had  raised  cane  and  quince  for 
the  "Queen's  Gentlemen."  Jean  was  not  intent  on  the  sale 
and  said,  "  'Taint  no  use  for  I'm  'gainst  it,  and  no  gent's  tin 
or  chin  will  cause  me  to  sell  it."  It  would  do  Jim  good  to 
see  the  steam  arise  and  stain  the  stems  or  tint  the  leaves 
of  the  elm. 

He  did  not  advise  Jim  to  go,  but  instead  said  he  had 
an  esteemed  friend,  a  dentist,  to  whom  he  said  he  deemed 
it  best  for  Jim  to  write  an  intense  note  and  have  him  see  to 
a  tent  that  was  on  the  estate. 

Jim  said,  "Oh,  no,  that  is  too  thin." 


62 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Pension 

intuition 

repetition 

vision 

invention 

attention 

inattention 

invasion 

impatient 

tuition 

invitation 

inefficient 

ambition 

edition 

supposition 

infatuation 

Lucian 

efficient 

accusation 

imitation 

inventive 

mention 

cessation 

incision 

institution 

reputation 

insufficient 

A  YOUTH'S  INVENTION. 


The  attention  of  Lucian  Hays,  who  was  at  the  head  of 
an  institution,  was  called  to  the  intuition  of  a  youth  of 
eighteen  years,  who  had  an  impatient  ambition  to  test  an 
invention  that  would  aid  the  deaf.  He  sent  an  invitation 
to  the  youth  to  let  him  see  the  efficiency  or  inefficiency  of  the 
invention  in  question,  for  he  thought  the  success  of  it  would 
add  to  his  reputation. 

But  the  youth  paid  no  attention  to  his  invitation  and 
even  the  repetition  of  it.  And  when  some  youth  mentioned 
it  to  him,  he  said  that  all  of  the  infatuation  Hays  had  for 
him  was  to  get  a  vision  of  his  invention  that  he  might  get 
out  an  imitation  of  it. 

Mr.  Hays  made  invasions,  on  the  supposition  that  the 
youth  owed  for  his  tuition.  These  invasions  were  almost 
without  cessation,  when  he  saw  in  an  edition  of  the  "Sunday 
Sun,"*  an  accusation  that  set  up,  within  his  bosom,  an  emo- 
tion. 

It  seems  that  the  youth  was  about  to  institute  an  in- 
vestigation as  to  what  his  rights  were  by  the  aid  of  law,  as, 
in  an  invasion,  Mr.  Hays  made  an  incision  on  the  face  of  the 
youth;  that  was  bad. 


EXTRA  SYLLABLES.  53 

If  the  n  or  m  sound  can  not  blend  in  the  same  syllable 
with  the  name. of  a  circle  vowel,  either  an  extra  loop  must 
be  made  or  one  of  these  strokes  must  be  used  to  record  the 
extra  syllable. 

When  a  word  ends  in  "ted,  ded,  detortet,"  as  the  con- 
sonant cannot  be  shaded  for  more  than  one  sound,  the  more 
convenient  of  these  should  be  used  and  generally  shaded 


J... 


Basin . .  .y>. . .  ..laden .  -*/ . .  ..* . 

business. ..\^ *. 

bidden,  v^... maiden./ *. 


deaden 
raisin I.  . 


hasten . .Jo chasten 7P . .  * . 

question/ /V- *• 

listen-*/..... hidden..  X *. 

beaten  .x-* . . .  recent  ../T. . .  * . 
noted .  ^^^ . . .  .abated .  >j5«^, 

stated... <'r!'r!TT?^ *. 

deeded .  .><7^ .  .^TT^ar.' . . .  ::s *. 

voted  ■  ■^. .  .^.  hated . . .  .<q^  .^ .  *. 

in  vested....  X* *. 

lasted—*/...  listed—/^ *. 

immediate    /f-u-     *• 

cheated \>^-< *. 

tasted. 


54 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Beaten 

hasten 

noted 

posted 

basin 

hidden 

needed 

petted 

business 

written 

knotted 

padded 

piston  rod 

whiten 

matted 

pasted 

invested 

kitten 

deeded 

basted 

faded 

jested 

dotted 

raided 

laden 

deaden 

tested 

loaded 

lessen 

tighten 

tasted 

lasted 

heated 

heeded 

hated 

quoted 

studied 

stated 

instituted 

questioi 

ALBERT  ROSS'S   GASOLINE   ENGINE. 


Albert  Ross  has  just  invested  in  a  noted  business  house 
to  which  Edward  Boyd  had  written  and  posted  a  letter  in 
which  he  quoted  Albert,  as  asking*  a  question  about  how  to 
tighten  a  certain  piston  rod  to  an  old  gasoline  engine  that 
loosens  whenever*  it  is  heated. 

The  basin  of  this  engind  was  badjy  "beaten  up"  when 
deeded  to  Albert  by  a  friend.* 

Edward  jested  with  him  about  the  lesson  he  would  get 
if  he  tested  it.  To  this  Albert  made  a  statement*  as  to 
how  he  had  studied  it  and  "dotted  down"  each  item  the 
engine  needed.  He  said  he  had  padded  the  laden  parts  of 
the  engine  with  a  leaden  piece  to  deaden  its  noise  and  that 
this  lasted  about  a  week.  He  hastened  to  tell  about  how  he 
instituted  a  scheme*  for  whitening*  the  engine  and  said  the 
whitening*  faded. 

Edward  said  he  hated  to  ask  him  about  how  he  petted 
a  kitten  that  had  raided  some  rats  hidden  in  the  basin  of  his 
engine,  so  he,  Edward,  pasted  the  question  on  a  piece  of 
linen  and  basted  it  around  the  engine  for  Albert  to  see. 

*See  page  55  for  expressing  the  following  "g." 

*See  page  94  for  the  "sk"  stroke. 


CROSSING  OUTLINES.  55 

By  crossing  to  or  from  any  circle  or  loop  the  following  "k, 
g,  3  or  ch"  sounds  may  be  expressed.  If  "ing"  does  not 
coalesce  with  a  preceding  vowel  an  extra  loop  must  be  formed 
and  cross  from  that  as  pacing,  paining,  etc.  If  these  sounds 
are  not  needed  in  the  word,  by  crossing  from  or  to  the  short 
i  circle,  the  expression  of  the  word  "which"  may  be  added; 
or  by  crossing  to  or  from  the  short  e  circle  the  syllable  "ex" 

may  be  expressed 

Page Se. * 

paying. ..)5r? * 

thinking.  .<:!^ ,...* 

exerting..  f^TTT?. * 

rising. in. * 

passing....?:;^ ..* 

for  which  ...^ .-* 

which  are.. ?.....:'. * 

express... <:j^.:^ * 

changing .tI *... 


choosing ...rS. 

costing.... T!^ 

casting.... TiKf. 

ragVvS:T7^ 

passmg.....>r 

figuring....:^. 


which  of  !\. 

pitch 7f. 

hickory.... -rWrrrf!. 


56 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Paying 

bending 

bossing 

fading 

pacing 

obeying 

boating 

investing 

pensioning 

beating 

inventing 

feeding 

pinning 

being 

pouting 

fitting 

patting 

abiding 

figuring* 

feasting 

painting 

buying 

inviting 

fighting 

podding 

abusing 

voting 

footing 

pudding 

boosting 

fencing 

fading 

padding 

budding 

freighting 

lending 

bedding 

facing 

paining 

A  REPORTER  AT  AN  AUCTION. 


Abe  Wright,  a  reporter  on  the  "Evening  News,"  and  his 
son,  arranged  to  go  to  Mr.  Lloyd's  house  to  attend  an  auc- 
tion, with  the  idea  of  investing  in  or  buying  Mr.  Lloyd's 
house  and  lot.  On  the  way,  he  was  boasting  about  not  hav- 
ing to  pay  or  paying  too  big  a  sum  for  it. 

The  reporter's  son  thought  of  the  boys'  inviting  him 
into  the  house,  so  that  he  might  be  eating  pudding  as  his 
father  was  bidding  on  the  house  and  awaiting  the  figuring 
of  those  who  did  the  auctioning. 

As  Mr,  Lloyd  was  bossing  the  auction,  he  said  that  as 
the  paint  was  fading,  Roy  might  be  painting  the  coal-house, 
fencing  the  podding  peas,  feeding  the  pigs  that  were  fight- 
ing, or  fencing  the  cow-lot,  and  not  beating  the  pining  ape 
that  had  lost  its  footing  as  it  was  pacing  o'er  the  posies; 
that  Joe  might  be  lending  his  aid  to  freighting*  some  goods 
that  the  boys  were  boating,  "fitting  up"  some  padding  to  be 
used  for  bedding  for  the  ape,  or  footing  up  the  sales  as  the 
audience  was  bidding. 

As  the  boys  were  obeying,  the  reporter's  son  was  bend- 
ing o'er  the  ape  and  patting  it,  pinning  a  wrapping  upon  its 
paining  limb  and  pouting  about  his  not  having  any  of  the 
nice  roasting  pudding  that  was  being  cooked  for  those  at  the 
bidding, 

Mr.  Lloyd  said  the  boy  might  be  inventing  some  way  for 
boosting  the  ape,  that  Roy  was  abusing,  into  its  bedding  if 
he  wished  pensioning. 

*See  page  101  for  the  "fg"  stroke;  page  101  for  the  "fr" 
stroke. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


57 


Leading 

raiding 

rating 

housing 

lading 

raising 

Hastings 

whetting 

letting 

resting 

hitting 

Whiting 

allotting 

arresting 

heating 

cutting 

lighting 

reading 

heeding 

casting 

lasting 

rotting 

hiding 

causing 

lathing 

writing 

hooting 

coasting 

loading 

riding 

haying 

costing 

looting 

routing 

hewing 

cheating 

Reading 

hemming 

hoeing 

king,  kink 

WHAT  WE  WERE  ALL  DOING  AT  HASTINGS. 


We  were  all  doing  something  at  Hastings.  Abe  was 
lading  a  ship;  Will  was  leading  ponies*  to  the  ship;  Edward 
was  allotting  goods  for  the  lading,  while  Ella  was  lighting 
the  gas.  By  the  way,  the  gas  was  lasting  well  enough  for 
Jim  to  be  lathing  the  hall;  Roy  was  loading  some  hay  as  his 
father  did  the  rest  of  the  haying;  Kate  was  reading  an  ad. 
as  a  robber  was  looting  our  shop;  Hattie  anv.  little  Eva 
were  raiding  an  ant-hill,  as  mother  was  raising  dough  for 
a  cake;  Fay  was  resting  on  the  bed  as  the  police  were 
arresting  a  bad  boy;  Artie  was  going  to  Reading,  as  Roy 
Case  was  writing  about  the  wheat  that  was  rotting  in  the 
bin;  Bettie  was  routing  the  hens  that  were  on  the  roost,  as 
Rosie  was  riding  a  pony*;  Alice  was  hemming  her  wrapper 
and  Ora  was  hitting  a  ball,  as  the  sun  was  heating  old 
earth,  and  Lloyd  was  not  heeding  the  heat;  Lottie  was  hid- 
ing some  kittens,  as  Sarah  was  hunting*  for  them;  Will 
Read  was  hoeing  the  potatoes  and  hewing  wood  for  Joe  as 
Joe  was  whetting  his  ax  to  do  some  chopping. 

"When  all  of  this  is  done,"  said  father,  "we  may  go  to 
Whiting  and  be  casting  our  nets  into  the  bay  in  the  sum- 
mer and  coasting  on  the  ice  in  the  fall;  although  this  will 
be  coscmg  me  some,  it  will  be  causing  us  to  be  enjoying  our 
stay  in  Whiting." 

*See  page  64  for  deeping  curves. 


58 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


acquainting 

:  intending 

dotting 

mussing 

knitting 

thinning 

doubting 

amassing 

tiding 

denting 

netting 

matting 

testing 

studying 

noting 

staying 

teasing 

dating 

nothing 

sting 

tasting 

deeding 

thinking 

stewing 

toasting 

dotting 

needing 

stating 

tossing 

dying 

meeting 

bringing* 

tenting 

indicting 

missing 

Change 

chink 

chasing 

choosing 

jotting 

jesting 

getting 

guiding 

quitting 

THE  ADVENTURES  OF  A  "CHINK"    (CHINAMAN). 

I  had  been  staying  at  a  hotel,  spending  my  hours  in 
knitting,  studying,  jesting,  thinking,  tasting  some  tea  that 
was  steeping,  and  had  just  finished  jotting  down  my  lesson, 
when  I  saw  a  lot  of  boys  chasing  a  "chink"  for  the  cash 
he  had. 

I  kept  my  eyes  on  the  boys  as  they  passed  down  the 
avenue.  At  the  postoffice  they  stopped,  and  the  "chink" 
set  them  to  choosing,  while  he  was  teasing  them  by  tossing 
pennies  out  into  the  dust  of  the  road. 

Soon  a  lot  of  boys  gathered,*  and  the  police  that  were 
passing,  stopped  to  inquire  about  the  fuss. 

As  soon  as  the  "chink"  saw  the  police,  he  "set"  to  stat- 
ing his  reasons  for  the  boys  amassing  and  giving  some  tid- 
ings about  the  boys.  But  he  had  no  idea  of  indicting  the 
boys. 

Then  he  "set"  to  stating  to  them  how  his  father,  while 
dying  by  the  sting  of  a  bee,  had  been  inditing  advice  and 
deeding  to  him  all  he  had. 

It  seemed  to  be  amusing  to  the  boys  to  see  him  going 
to  meeting  with  his  change  in  a  piece  of  tenting.  He  was 
intending  to  say  nothing  about  this  change.  But  as  he  was 
missing  some  matting  that  he  was  needing  he  thought  it 
might  be  at  the  boys'  meeting,  and  said  so,  when  the  boys 
"set"  to  chasing  hjm. 

The  police  had  been  noting  what  he  had  said  and  test- 
ing the  boys,  when  they  "set"  to  jesting  them  about  getting 
away  and  letting  them  off.  All  of  this  while  they  were 
intending  to  let  the  boys  think  they  were  quitting  their  jobs 
while  they  were  guiding  them  to  the  station  for  not  acquit- 
ting the  "chink." 

♦See  page  134  for  the  "br"  stroke. 


THE  SHORT  A  AND  AW  LENGTHENED.         59 

The  short  a  and  aw  may  be  made  the  length  of  "n,  m,  ns, 
ms,  mn  or  nm"  strokes  to  add  the  sound  of  these  characters  to 
them.  Aw  may  be  lengthened  in  the  same  way  to  add  these 
sounds  to  "aw"  or  "ah" 

Pan.. y..... pans  .Sr....* Pawns.. .Si 

answer. .4rr77 * Vaughan.N...., 

pawn..Sn....band.Vy.  * palm....?:?/.,.... 

than/rr:rs/hand..lr...* balm....L.tA.... 


Champion _ .* calm. ..7!^, 

.a.. 


Dan.<^T7!7rv;.«/ * botany. 


iz::: 


advantage .  .^^ * . 

fancy.\/..land.^....*. 

stand  ...cf. * 

instance. .(rf * 

chance. ...<^ *. 

Panama. 
Hammonc^..^. 

famine... V^ *. 

Latin..r^ *. 

lance. .  .Trf^. *. 

lawn-w«^...fawn^sl *. 

fatten. .\/. *. 

patent..../. *. 

laudanum  .  -w««q. *. 


.gone 
Da 


h- 


60 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Page 

hickory 

quick 

patent 

fan 

piR 

hitch 

quake 

pant 

fans 

pitch 

which 

thick 

palm 

fatten 

big 

whig 

Dick 

pawn 

fanned 

passage 

cage 

dig 

band 

fawn 

league 

kitchen 

deck 

botany 

fond 

rage 

check 

make 

bond 

land 

rig 

cheek 

stick 

van 

lands 

fig 

Jake 

stake 

vantage 

lawn 

Fitch 

gauge 

static 

aVance 

Latin 

JAKE  FITCH'S  FAWN  AND  PIG. 


On  the  fifty-eighth  page  of  his  botany,  Jake  Fitch  saw 
a  Latin  passage  giving  a  story  of  an  old  Whig  who  pitched 
his  tent  beneath  the  thick  leaves  of  a  fig  and  some  palms, 
where  he  could  make  fans  of  the  palm  leaves  and  put  them 
into  his  van,  an  old  rig  he  got  of  a  boy  by  the  name  of 
Dick  Vaughan. 

This  Whig  had  a  big  pet  fawn  that  was  fond  of  the  figs 
and  he  would  use  a  hickory  stick  to  stake  it  out  on  the  land 
or  lands  about  his  tent.  Each  day  he  would  gauge  its  "static 
advance"  by  weighing  it.  He,  also,  had  a  pet  pig  that  he 
kept  in  a  cage  in  the  kitchen  of  his  tent  or  that  he  hitched  to 
a  stake  on  the  lawns  about  the  houses  in  the  neighborhood. 
He  fed  it  on  hickory  nuts  and  "checked  up"  its  weight,  also. 
He  fastened  a  patent  band  about  its  leg  and  a  ring  in  its 
nose  so  that  it  would  not  dig  up  the  lawn,  as  he  had  given 
his  bond  not  to  pawn  the  pig  nor*  let  it  dig  up  the  lawn. 

One  day,  when  the  heat  was  intense,  and  the  Whig  was 
away  to  attend  league,  the  fawn  got  into  a  quick  rage  at 
the  pig  and  they  fought  'til  they  both  had  to  pant.  As  the 
Whig  was  not  at  the  tent  to  fan  them  and  they  were  so  fat, 
they  both  died. 

*See  page  126  for  the  "nr"  stroke. 


THE  FOLLOWING  I  LENGTHENED.  61 

The  following  T  may  be  lengthened  to  record  the  n  or  m 
sound  following  the  T.    It  should  curve  outward 


62 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Hand 

John 

dawn 

bind 

fines 

Hattan 

gone 

daunt 

dine 

binds 

cam 

tan 

dawned 

minds 

vine 

can't 

tans 

Staten 

kind 

vines 

calmed 

tanned 

stand 

twine 

Rhine 

chance 

taunt 

instant 

enchant 

lines 

chant 

than 

stammer 

standard 

behind 

champion 

dance 

hammer 

Jan. 

mine 

jam 

dam 

dancer 

chimes 

JOHN  HATTON'S  DANCE. 


On  Jan.  9,  John  Hatton,  a  champion  dancer,  danced  all 
night  'til  day-dawn  behind  ivy  vines,  which  twined  about 
the  boughs  of  an  old  hickory. 

There  was  not  an  instant  that  he  ceased  to  dance. 
This  was  on  a  fine  stand  at  Staten  Island,  as  some  one 
thought  to  daunt  him  by  giving  him  the  taunt  that  he  would 
stand  it  to  dance  less  than  six  hours.  So,  just  at  the  chime 
of  bells*  and  the  ring  of  hammers,  this  enchanter,*  with- 
out a  stammer,  said,  "This  is  my  chance."  To  the  tune  of 
"Ladies'  Chants"  he  set  his  standard  for  other*  dancers. 
With  not  a  can't,  but  with  feet  encased  in  oak-tans,  a  mind 
that  was  calm  and  kind  as  the  twine  of  the  vine  about  the 
stand,  he  had  gone  to  wend  his  way  o'er  line  on  line  as 
freely*  as  the  flow*  of  the  Rhine;  and  as  firm*  as  the  cam 
of  a  wheel,  he  glided  his  way  o'er  the  Staten  Island. 

*See  pages  122  for  the  "tr"  stroke;  97  for  the  "bl" 
stroke;  119  for  the  "thr"  stroke;  101  for  the  "fl"  stroke, 
and  126  for  the  "rm"  stroke. 


OW  CHANGED  TO  OUN.  63 


The  curve  for  ou  or  ow  (  o  )  may  be  continued  to  curve  in- 
side like  this  (  o  )  to  express  the  following  n  or  m  sounds... 


Ounce.. ...^P. *.. 

pound  ....S>P. *.. 

bound.  ..Sw^.... *.. 

bounce  .V-^ *., 

found..., ^sa *  , 

pounded. . .  .V:?^77!^  ....*. 

around.... "fr.... ".'.'? *. 

hound 1q *. 

count  ....r!As>. *. 

account.... ^No... *. 

gown Q *, 

town....N^rr^ *. 

down./<rr.....T^>^.. *. 

noun 6 *• 

amount.  A^.... *. 

astound.. yry *. 

wound  ...'Krrr> *. 

sound.. 


64  CURVES  DEEPENED. 

All  curves  but  those  of  "ah  and  longu"  may  be  deepened 
to  express  the  following  n  or  m  sounds;  as  un  (  =» ),  own 

(<=•),  them  (^^)  or  Gent  (C  ) 

Shade  ''un"  for  "under."  » 

f 
own. f:...  only  3....* 

pony..S* * 

bone..Nt5...un..=?..* 

phone.. ^. • 

hundred. .!t^ * 

alone. .y«/. * 

home.... J...  ^ * 

undone.  ^f^^TTX...* 

Jones... ^ • 

toneNw^.ton.W.* 

them/r!?S.undo.:^r!7T>.* 

stone. <^ • 

unless.. "^^f^. • 

untie.  :T?-i?.... ,,...* 

lesson  .^s--/ * 

understand  Y^...* , 

done../r\.A * 

homely...^. • 

underwriter  .T?rrP.* 

lonely..— 7 ♦ 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


65 


Pound 

gown 

pun 

thump 

bone 

bound 

town 

abundance 

jump 

pony 

abound 

towns 

fund 

gun-gum 

phone 

found 

down 

lesson 

gent 

alone 

fountain 

noun 

lump 

ton 

Rhone 

round 

mount 

lumber 

them 

home 

hound 

amount 

Huns 

done 

Jones 

count 

stound 

hunt 

none 

tone 

account 

astound 

cone 

stun 

stone 

counts 

announce 

chum 

stunt 

THE  GOWN  JONES  FOUND. 


Last  week,  I  received  a  'phone  from*  a  gentleman  by 
the  name  of  Jones,  who  announced  that  he  and  his  chum 
had  just  come  home,  and  wished  to  see  me. 

It  seems  that  they  had  been  away  for  a  stay  of  a  year 
on  the  Rhone.  While  in  Europe,  they  were  on  the  hunt  for 
game,  when  some  Huns,  mounted  on  ponies,  thumped  them 
with  stones  which  stunned  Jones  and  raised  lumps  on  his 
chum's  head.  They  had  guns  but  did  not  use  them.  When 
the  Huns  had  done  this,  they,  again,  mounted  the  ponies  and 
bounded  away.    In  a  "stound"*  they  were  alone. 

A  count  said,  that  around  the  woods,  in  which  they  were, 
the  Huns  abound;  but  Jones  said  that  the  count  aimed  at  a 
pun,  for  he  knew  that  no  Huns  were  in  Europe  and  he  did 
not  enjoy  the  fun  the  count  was  having  at  his  expense. 

On  account  of  this,  he  and  his  chum  came  home;  and 
as  they  passed  through  town  nigh  a  fountain  they  found  a 
gown  with  quite  an  amount  in  it.  As  to  the  amount,  he  did 
not  say;  but  he  thought  it  was  mine  and  said  I  might  have 
it  if  I  would  come  down  town. 

I  had  to  have  some  lumber  and  a  ton  of  lump  coal;  I 
hitched  up  my  ponies  and  sought  the  gown  and  the  funds,  as 
I  thought,  but  when  I  came  to  see  the  gown  I  had  my  lesson; 
for  the  gown  had  quite  an  amount  of  holes  in  it. 

♦Obsolete. 


66 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND, 


Aptly 

peddle 

fiddle 

acquittal 

cutely 

safely 

pistol 

feudal 

actual 

justly 

softly 

petal 

little 

title 

tastily 

badly 

paddle 

riddle 

tattle 

deadly 

fitly 

postal 

rattle 

metal 

neatly 

vastly 

bottle 

huddle 

meddle 

nightly 

readily 

boodle 

whittle 

model 

nicely 

rudely 

battle 

kettle 

muddle 

medley 

Hadley 

fatal 

fatality 

nettle 

stately 

hastily 

fatally 

chattel 

costly 

steadily 

THE  LITTLE  REBEL. 


Now  Mr.  Caudle,  you  can  readily  see  the  feudal  notions 
of  your  little  rebel.  He  was  vastly  in  need  of  a  model 
father. 

I  fitly  said  to  Mr.  B.  Hadley  who  peddles  pistols,  fid- 
dles, costly  medals,  the  red  rose  and  its  petals  and  those 
deadly  bottles  of  wine,  that,  if  he  sold  the  boy  the  fatal 
pistol,  the  boy  would  hastily  go  to  battle,  let  the  bullets 
rattle,  and  riddle  all  of  those  who  would  meddle  with  his 
rights;  and  now  you  see  how  he  is  in  a  muddle. 

Although  he  was  nicely,  neatly  and  tastily  kept,  he  was 
steadily  and  readily  going  to  the  bad.  Nightly,  he  was  in  a 
"huddle"  at  the  race  or  rattled  that  old  kettle  to  nettle  me. 

When  he  was  a  babe,  and  could  but  toddle,  I  softly  and 
safely  put  him  to  bed.  Then  we  justly  said  he  cutely  spoke 
and  aptly  used  his  little  knife  to  whittle. 

But,  when  I  received  this  stately  postal  about  his  coat 
being  all  red  with  the  stain  of  Mr.  Hay's  blood*  whom  he 
fatally  riddled,  I  said,  "Oh,  how  may  we  get  the  boy's 
acquittal?"  I  rudely  thought  the  officers  might  be  vastly 
in  need  of  boodle.    This  thought,  I  knew,  was  a  sin. 

*See  page  97  for  the  "bl"  stroke. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


67 


Add-ition 

add-le 

add-uce 

ad-here* 

ad-apt 

ad-jacent 

ad-.|ective 

ad- join 

ad-just 

ad-jutant 


ad-mission 

ad-vice 

ad-mit 

al,  all 

ad-mittance 

al-though 

ad-ieu 

all-ow 

ad-opt 

al-ready 

ad-vance 

al-beit 

ad-vantage 

all-right 

ad-vent 

all-hands 

ad-venture 

all-day 

advise 

all-iance 

Algiers 

al-most 

all-oy 

al-so 

all-ude 

all-usion 

ul-timate 

ul-ster 

Archie 

ar-ch 


ARCHIE  ALLEN'S   ADMISSION   TO   THE   UNITED 
STATES. 

Mr.  Archie  Allen,  whose  home  is  in  Algiers,  gained 
admission  to  the  United  States  by  the  aid  of  an  alliance 
that  he  had  with  a  count. 

He  had  already  bid  adieu  to  his  native  town  and  got  on 
board  a  ship  "all  right"  while  all  hands  were  on  duty;  when 
he  made  his  advances  to  a  count  to  have  the  count  adopt 
him  as  his  son,  and  had  almost  succeeded.  An  adjutant, 
sitting  on  a  seat  adjacent  to  his,  advised  the  count  to  do  so, 
adding  that  the  boy  was  quite  an  adept  at  almost  anything 
he  attempted  to  do  and  would  be  an  advantage  to  him  if  he 
could  adapt  the  boy  to  our  customs  and  ways. 

The  count  heeded  his  advice  and  allowed  the  boy  to  act 
as  his  son,  for  the  time  at  least;  but,  in  the  advent  of  his 
coming  into  the  United  States,  the  officers  thought  they  would 
not  admit  him.    All  day,  the  boy  was  quite  abject. 

Each  time  the  count  alluded  to  it,  or  at  each  allusion, 
the  officers  were  addled,  and  to  adjust  matters,  said  the  count 
might  pay  an  admission  fee  for  him  if  the  boy  would  lay  off 
his  ulster.  This  was  the  boy's  ultimate  success.  Albeit, 
the  boy  had  to  pay  the  count  dearly*  for  his  adventure.  This 
the  boy  did,  as  he  was  gold  without  alloy,  and  in  addition, 
adhered  to  the  count's  interest.* 

*See  page  111  for  the  "hr"  stroke. 

♦See  page  119  for  the  "dr"  stroke. 


68 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Ar-dent 

any-way 

any-thing 

ab-sent 

ar-duous 

ant-edate 

any-where 

app-earance 

ar-gent 

ant-erior 

app-end 

ob-edient 

ar-gue 

anth-em 

app-etite 

ob-edience 

ar-ith — 

ant-idote 

app-licant 

ob-lation 

or-ifice 

ant-ipode 

app-lication 

ob-ligate 

ans-wer 

ant-iquity 

op-erate 

ann-ex 

an-tique 

any 

app-os-ition 

A  YOUTH'S  AMBITION. 


Some  years  ago,  I  knew  an  ardent  youth,  who  put  in  an 
application*  to  operate  a  pipe-organ  for  a  gay  audience. 

He  met  with  some  opposition,  as  his  antique  ways  aroused 
the  objection  of  the  choir;  and,  to  obligate*  him  to  do  an 
arduous  task,  they  chose  an  antique  anthem — an  anthem 
anterior  to  anything  he  had  ever  heard.* 

In  answer  to  this  he  did  not  argue  with  them,  for  he 
knew  the  urgent  need  of  success;  but  he  said  to  the  audi- 
ence, "Are  any,  anywhere,  in  this  audience  who  know  this 
anthem?"  and  they  all  answered,  "No."  Then  he  said,  "I 
wish  to  amuse  you,  so  listen." 

He  sat  at  the  organ  and  thumped  the  keys  to  the  time 
of  the  anthem  but  to  the  tune  of  "A  Hot  Time  in  the  Old 
Town  Tonight." 

Not  a  listener  knew,  no,  not  even  the  choir,  but  that 
he  was  right;  for  none  of  them  knew  the  piece. 

He  received  an  ovation  and  the  choir  did  not  appear 
to  object  to  the  audience's  oblation  and  to  his  being  annexed 
to  the  choir. 

*See  page  111  for  the  "hr"  stroke. 

♦See  page  105  for  the  "Ik"  stroke. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


69 


Ob-sequies 

exc-el 

exp-ance 

exp-osition 

em-boss 

ob-tain 

ex-cuse 

ex-pedite 

ex- tend 

emp-ty 

ob-viate 

ex-alt 

ex-pedition 

ex-tent 

en-chant 

op-en-h-and 

ex-ult 

ex-pound 

which-pay 

en-chain 

opp-ose 

ex-ert 

ex-press 

which-had 

en-case 

opp-osition 

ex-hort 

ex-quisite 

em-balm 

endanger 

ex-cavate 

exp-and 

ex-tant 

em-body 

end-eavor 
in-which 

HOW  WE  WERE  FOOLED. 

A  few  days  ago,  as  we  thought,  a  sad  incident  hap- 
pened for  my  aunt. 

It  was  this  way.  A  beauty  of  a  case  came  by  express  to 
our  house  for  our  aunt  and  we  were  all  exultant  that  aunt 
had  received  such  an  exquisite  gift. 

I  thought  to  exalt  her  son,  Edward,  by  exhorting  him 
to  expose  that  which  was  encased  in  this  excellent,  embossed 
case,  by  opening  it  for  exposition  to  us  all. 

I  thought  we  would  all  be  enchanted  with  that  which 
was  excavated.  To  expedite  matters,  I,  in  an  open-handed 
way  endeavored  to  give  him  an  excuse  to  do  so,  by  exhorting 
the  rest  to  have  him  do  it,  and  expounding  to  all  my  rea- 


This  act,  which  had  endangered  my  peace,  was  not  so 
excellent  as  I  thought,  for  we  found  embodied  in  it,  a  body 
that  seemed  to  have  been  embalmed  for  some  time,  also,  a 
typewritten  account  of  the  obsequies  at  the  death  of  Miss 
Ella  Rose. 

We  thought  this  was  her  niece,  and,  as  our  aunt  was 
out  when  we  opened  the  case,  we  thought  to  obviate  any 
opposition  by  re-encasing  it  in  the  case  in  which  it  was 
expressed. 

Aunt,  finding  out  what  we  had  done,  said  that  Ella 
Rose  is  a  white  rat  extant  in  the  embalm,  enchained  in  beads 
of  gold.  "Edward,  you  may  open  the  effigy  and  let  the  rat 
out,  for  your  cousin  expanded  the  case  to  fool  you  by  its 
expanse,"  said  our  aunt. 

We  extend  this  story  to  you  that  you  may  write  it  to 
its  full  extent  in  shorthand. 


70  THE  SYLLABLE  "lOUS"  EXPRESSED. 


-      if   --:-fi 


Although  this  "syllable  is  naturally  expressed,  it  does  not 
readily  suggest  itself  to  the  pupil;  we  therefore,  give  illus- 
trations below... 


Anxious f^.^..*. 

illustrious. .  .*-*/ *. 

facetious.... <i)i *. 

gorgeous. Ci^,,^.^ . . .  *. 

righteous.  ."T??. * 

religious. -rrrT? *, 

religion.. *rrrr^. * 

gracious.  C...^^.... * 

luscious....---*/. * 

♦conspicuous  ^;....* 
•continuous.,  r"  (P....* 
industrious."  " 


•    See  page  79  for  the  "con"  prefix. 


PREFIXES.  71 


These  characters  are  used  for  prefixes:  "under  (»), 
super  (  ^),  trans  (  «  ),  inter  (  •  ),  enter  (  •  ).  sub  (r  ), 
ad  (  y  ) 


Undergo  ....O. *. 

underwriter.  .T*.'. . ."?. *. 

understate....  <^ ..*. 

superin-tend .  .Tt:/ * . 

supervise .>& „...*. 

superlative.  .Ae^. * . 


transcribe.... vj- *. 

transmission . .  .^. *. 


transgress ....  -T  ^ 

interview...  \r> *., 

entertain. .V^ *., 

enterp-rise.  __-_,. *.. 

submit Jf. *. 

subject...  J[3V.(|^. *• 

advise....^ *. 

admission.^ *. 

add-ition-.-'f* *. 

ad  vantage... \V/. *. 

advantageous .  .'\ro. *. 


72 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


En-d-less 

en-dow 

en-due 

im-bibe 

im-bitter 

im-bue 

im-mense 

im-mediate 

im-passive 

im-peach 


im-pede 

im-pend 

imper-ative 

imper-tinent 

imper-vious 

im-petus 

im-pious 

import-ance 

imp-ose 

imp-osition 


imp-otent 

imp-ress 

In-dian 

in-  capacity 

in-case 

In-diana 

inde-finite 

in-dent 

in-deed 

In-dia 


in-dict 

indisp-ose 

indis-pense 

in-dite 

in-duce 

in-dustry 

in-famous 

in-fant 


A  MOTHER  OF  INDIA. 

A  mother  of  India  was  about  to  dispose  of  her  infant 
A  missionary  saw  it  and  so  indited  the  account  of  it  that 
some  men,  imbittered  by  the  act  of  the  mother's  imperti- 
nence, imposed  an  immediate  impost  upon  the  agent,  which 
impeded  the  act. 

This  gave  an  impetus,  that  imbued  the  judges  who  had 
the  mother  indicted  and  made  it  imperative  that  the  infant 
stay  by  her. 

This  impassive  mother  thought  the  act  ./uite  infamous 
and  most  impious;  and,  indeed,  thought  to  induce  the  judges, 
who  were  indisposed  to  act,  to  put  off,  to  an  indefinite  time, 
this  indictment.* 

Some,  who  had  imbibed  ale,  thought  this  was  an  impo- 
sition and  wished  to  impeach  the  judges  or  impress  them 
that  an  impending  act  would  be  made. 

They  soon  found  out  that  those  immense  judges  were 
impervious  to  all  they  did.  The  judges  knew  of  their  inca- 
pacity to  impeach  them. 

This  inditement  of  the  missionary  did  an  endless  amount 
of  good,  as  it  caused  some  to  endow  an  institution  for  the 
good  of  such  infants  and  this  institute,  so  endowed,  saved 
mothers,  also. 

♦See  page  115  for  the  "mn"  stroke. 

See  pagell5  for  the  "con"  prefix. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


73 


In-fest 

un-beaten 

un-common 

in-finite 

un-bending 

uncon-dition 

in-fuse 

unbe-known 

uncon-stitute 

in-genious 

un-bidden 

unde-fined 

in-habit 

un-bias 

unde-sired 

in-justice 

un-bound 

undisp-ose 

in-let 

un-brace 

undi-vided 

in-mate 

un-capped 

under-agent 

in-quest 

un-case 

under-bid 

en-thuse 

un-changed 

under-bush 

under- 
under 
under 
under 
under 
under 
""^nder 
under 
under 


buy- 
change 
•coat 
■cut 
•fed 
■go 

-gone 
-hand 
-lie 


THE  OAKWOOD  ESTATE  ON  HUDSON  BAY. 


Mr.  John  Boyd,  an  ingenious  youth  of  two-five  (25) 
years,  bought,  unbeknown  to  his  cousin,  the  undivided  half 
of  some  land  on  an  inlet  of  Hudson  Bay,  that  was  owned  by 
heirs  to  the  Oakwood  estate,  on  which  stood  a  large  white 
stone  house. 

The  inmates  had  just  had  an  inquest  on  the  death  of 
some  of  the  infinite  amount  of  mosquitoes  that  infest  the 
house. 

As  they  were  the  only  inhabitants  of  the  land,  he  saw 
no  injustice  for  him  to  go  unbidden  into  the  house  and 
infuse  a  perfume  for  them.  This  was  so  uncommon  for  them, 
as  the  under-agent  said  that  the  land  had  been  unchanged 
for  years,  and  that  these  mosquitoes  had  unconditioned  it  for 
a  home.  The  under-agent  had  hoped  to  underbid  him  as  he 
had  underchanged   his  cash. 

John  was  unbiased,  and  had  unbounded  hopes  of  uncon- 
stituting  the  rights  of  the  mosquitoes;  so  he  lay  off  his 
undercoat  to  cut  the  underbushes  and  the  vines  that  underlie 
them  in  an  undefined  way. 

He  knew  that  what  the  land  was  about  to  undergo  was 
undesired  by  them;  but  with  a  will  unbeaten  although  under- 
handed, he  uncapped  or  uncased  the  well,  unbraced  the  old 
fence  and  seemed  to  be  undisposed  to  give  up  when  evening 
came  and  the  mosquitoes  saw  what  their  lot  had  undergone. 
As  they  were  underfed,  and  as  he  had  his  undercoat  off, 
they  gave  him  so  many  undercuts,  that  he  soon  beat  the  air, 
made  a  bee-line  for  higher  land  and  now  it  would  be  easy  to 
underbuy  the  land  of  him. 


74 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Under-mine 

super-fine 

trans-!  t 

sub-ject 

under-most 

super-intend 

trans-late 

sub-lime 

under-sell 

super-lative 

intrans-it 

sub-mit 

under-stand 

super-cede 

trans-mit 

sub-ordain 

under-study 

super-vise 

trans-view 

sub-sequent 

under-stood 

trans-pose 

sub-mission 

sub-side 

under-tone 

trans-cend 

sub-con-cave 

sub-sist 

under-writer 

trans-ient 

trans-mute 

sub-stance 

super-add 

trans-action 

subdi-vide 

A  SCENE  ON  LAKE  GENEVA. 


The  superintendent  of  a  deaf  and  dumb  asylum  owns 
a  nice  residence  on  the  west  side  of  Lake  Geneva,  a  beautiful 
translucent  lake,  about  a  mile  in  width  and  eight  miles  in 
length. 

An  undertaker,  staying  at  the  house  as  a  transient,  to 
transact  business  subject  to  the  supervision  of  his  associa- 
tion, had  just  superseded  a  superanuated  deacon,  and,  in  a 
transaction,  said  to  the  deacon  in  an  undertone,  "I  under- 
stand that  you  understood  me  to  undermine  you  by  under- 
selling these  goods.  Now,  while  these  goods  were  in  transit 
subsequent  to  my  supervision,  they  were  subdivided  and 
sold,  then  the  transaction  was  submitted  to  you.  It  was  at 
this  submission  that  you  were  subject  to  this  change." 

As  this  speech  was  going  on  the  superintendent  was 
having  a  transview  of  this  sublime  lake.  H«  sat  in  an  in- 
transitive way,  as  the  transcendant  beauty  of  the  sun's  rays 
were  transmitting  a  radiant  light  on  the  subconcave  panes 
of  his  residence. 

Beside  him  sat  his  son,  bending  o'er  a  substudy  trans- 
lating Latin,  the  substance  of  which  he  could  not  get,  due 
to  the  fact  that  some  of  the  words  were  in  the  superlative 
degree. 

When  these  superfine  rays  of  light  had  subsided  and 
were  transposed  to  the  undulating  lea  below,  the  boy  was 
transmuted  from  a  sedate  student  to  a  romping  youth,  and 
said,  ^'Father,  let  us  have  a  sail  on  that  beautiful  lake." 


PREFIXES  CONTINUED.  75 


De  or  di  (  '  )  may  be  shaded  for  dis  or  des  (  *  ) ;  pre  or 
per  (  '^  )  may  be  recorded  closely  under  or  to  the  right  of  the 
beginning  of  an  outline,  and  pro  or  por  may  be  written  close- 
ly over  or  to  the  left  of  an  outline.  These  may  be  written 
below  the  line  of  writing  for  the  following  p  or  b 


Denote / *. 

divide. ...\i *. 

dilate....^. .*. 


dispose -..^ — .■*. 

depot 


if- 
proposition 


purpose...^. 

deposition *... 

disuse fr». *„, 


provide.. \i. *. 

permit J. *. 

appropriate. .  !^rrrf?. *. 


predisposed Vx, 

produce.. yr^rrrn^ * ^ ,,.....,,. ...vv...^.,.-.^ 

promote [y. ......* ,..^ „ ,..,... 

previous....  ^^... .*,.«.*.,.^,>....^.,,. ,..., ,....'■ 


purchase, 
indisposed. 


,^. 


76 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Sub-due 

inter-cede 

interp-ose 

deb-it 

sub-stitute 

inter-cept 

interr-ograte 

de-camp 

sub-urb 

inter-chain 

inter-sect 

de-fine 

ad-ore 

inter-commune 

inter-rupt 

de-ceive 

ad-ulate 

inter-change 

inter-state 

de-cent 

ad-hesion 

inter-ject 

inter-vene 

de-cide 

ad-hesive 

inter-line 

inter-view 

inter-loan 

inter-lace 

enter-tain 

inter-lude 

inter-mit 

enterp-rise 

A   SCHEME   FRUSTRATED. 


Messrs  Roberts  and  Hand  entertained  the  idea  that,  if 
they  could  interview  the  officials*  of  the  suburban  road  that 
intersects  on  a  choice  piece  of  land  in  the  suburbs  of  the 
city  of  Omaha,  Neb.,  and  joins  with  the  interstate  line,  they 
might  get  them  to  intercede  for  them,  so  that  they  might 
entertain  the  laborers,  who  were  repairing  these  roads, 
in  an  enterprise  whereby  these  laborers  would  inter-loan  to 
each  other*  in  such  a  way  that  their  interchange  would  pass 
into  the  hands  of  said  Roberts  and  Hand. 

They  thought  that  this  enterprise  would  interchain  all 
of  these  laborers  of  the  road  into  such  an  adhesive  society 
that  this  adhesion  would  interlace  all  of  their  interest,  and 
nothing  could  interrupt  their  plans. 

When  they  sought  to  interrogate  these  officers,  an  officer 
of  the  law  interjected  his  objection  so  as  to  intercept  this 
"debut."  This  was  an  interlude  that  caused  an  interchange 
of  thoughts  and  in  the  time  when  they  were  to  intercom- 
mune  with  the  officers,  the  laborers  decided  to  decamp  and 
this  descent  subdued  their*  intermittant  adulation  of  the 
laborer  whom  the  officers  seemed  not  to  adore. 

*See  page  94  for  the  "shl"  stroke. 

*See  page  119  for  the  "thr"  stroke. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


77 


Dec-ision 

de-mise 

de-rision 

des-pite 

de-cisive 

de-note 

desc— end 

de-scent 

de-stitute 

de-pend 

de-feat 

de-tain 

de-fame 

de-posit 

de-sire 

de-taste 

de-fense 

de-sign 

de-cay 

de-vast 

dep-ose 

dep-ot 

de-sist 

de-vise 

de-generate 

dep-ress 

des-titution 

de-vote 

de-lay 

dep-ute 

des-pise 

de-vout 

de-liberate 

de-ride 

de-light 

di-ffuse 

CAPTAIN 

JOHN   SMITH. 

Who  does  not  delight  in  the  early  history  of  our  coun- 
try? In  those  days  when  our  fore-fathers  were  almost  desti- 
tute by  the  devise  of  the  Indians  who  devastated  their 
homes. 

For  example,  deliberate  on  the  days  of  our  devout  John 
Smith.*  Despite  the  fact*  that  some  despised  and  sought 
to  depress  him  and  even  designed  his  imprisonment,*  perse- 
cuted by  despots,  defamed  and  derided  by  the  degenerate,  he 
"landed"  a  prisoner  in  the  colony  of  which  John  Smith  be- 
came* president. 

While  exploring  the  country  he  denoted  his  friendship 
for  the  Indians.  His  people  depended  on  him  and  he  had 
them  build  forts  for  their  defense. 

In  an  expedition  up  the  Chickahominy  he  was  detained 
by  the  Indians.  Without  delay,  he  devised  a  plan  for  escape 
by  devoting  his  time  to  interesting  his  persecutors  and  was 
decisive  in  depositing  a  letter  into  the  hands  of  his  friends 
at  Jamestown.  The  hour  of  his  demise  had  apparently 
come.  He  could  not  desist  it.  They  would  depose  him  of 
his  life.* 

It  was  then  that  Pocahontas,*  the  daughter*  of  the 
chief,  descended  to  his  assistance,  and  through*  her  descent 
the  purposes  of  the  Indians  were  defeated.  They  could  not 
refuse  her  desire. 

At  last,  disabled*  by  a  wound.  Smith  was  carried  back 
to  England.  The  colony  was  depressed  and  Jamestown  be- 
came* devastated  by  disease,  decay  and  famine.  It  was  the 
decision  of  all,  that  his  valuable*  services  were  the  suppwrt 
of  the  colony. 

*See  page  97  for  the  "bk"  stroke. 


78 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


di-gest 

di-mit 

di-mity 

dis-suade 

dis-tance 

disad-vantage 

disad-vise 

dis-aUow 

dis-appoint 

dis-avow 


dis-band 

dis-ease 

de-cision 

dis-cussion 

discon-nect 

dis  gust 

discon-tent 

discont-inue 

dis-guise 

dis-honest 


disinter-est 

dis-join 

dis-joint 

dis-may 

dis-mount 

dis-obey 

dis-miss 

dis-pend-er 

dis-pense 

disp-ose 


dispre-judice 

dis-pute 

dispro-portion 

dis-quiet 

dis-robe 

dis-rupt 

dis-satisfied 

dis-sension 

dis-sipate 

dis-used 


A  BOY  CAUSES  DISCONTENT. 


While  reading  o'er  the  digest  of  a  case,  I  saw  a  nota- 
tion, where  a  bad  boy  in  a  large  notion  business,  to  the  dis- 
may of  his  mother,  disobeyed  her  advice,  and  disinterested 
his  co-laborers,  while  the  owners  of  the  business  were  in 
the  East,  at  such  a  distance  that  they  could  not  dissuade 
the  discontented  or  dissatisfied  not  to  jpin  tl^e  boy's  dissen- 
sion. ;? 

They  could  disconnect  the  boy's  interest  with  the  busi- 
ness, discontinue  his  labor,  and  disrobe  him  of  his  disguise. 
They  did  dismiss  him,  but  by  dispensing  with  his  labor  did 
not  disprejudice  his  co-laborers,  disband  or  disrupt  their* 
society,  even  though  they  disposed  of  some  of  the  disquieted, 
and  disputed  the  right  of  some  who  were  disappointed  and 
also  dissipated  by  the  association  with  this  bad  boy. 

The  boy  said  the  cause  of  it  all  was,  the  dishonest  dis- 
proportion of  cash,  that  they  dispensed  to  the  laborers  and 
that  they  were  all  disgusted  o'er  an  act  of  the  owners,  who 
made  them  wear  a  piece  of  dimity  around  the  hat  on  the 
way  home  or  on  the  avenue,  and  that  if  they  did  not  dis- 
advise  or  dimit  this  dimity  into  disuse  his  society  would  sue 
them  for  damage. 

This  the  society  did  and  got  the  damage. 


CON  EXPRESSED  BY  CROSSING:    ALSO  THE     79 
PREFIXES  CON  OR  COM  AND  ORE  OR  GRA. 

"Con,  com,  coun,  cog  or  cong"  (  -  )  prefixes  may  be 
shaded  for  t  or  d.  These  syllables  in  the  body  of  a  word 
may  be  expressed  by  crossing  outline  for  the  syllable  beforp 
them  with  outline  for  syllable  after  them.  Examples  given 
below, 

The  syllables  gre  Or  gra  may  be  expressed  by  slightly  lift- 
ing the  pen.    Examples  given  below 

Committee  ..?C;^ *.... 


compose .^., 

country.. ..s^.. 
continue  ..."^(T. 
congress.... ■TT-rf 
conduct 

comply *. 

to  commence... ^?^. *. 

comprehend  ,.~a *. 


compromise. 


recommend  .,../... *. 


recognize. 

congregate ^  •••• *- 

photograph...^.... *. 

lithograph  ^V *. 

aggregate. ...r?(, *.. 

phonograph.. \j. >....*. 

cMi.ry. cannot..,. ry....* 

com.  .rr. . . .  .coming.  .:*».  .^  .*. 


80 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Dis-unite 

perad-venture 

per-ceive 

per-cent 

per-cept 

per-chance 

per-cussion 

per-fidy 

per-mit 

pre-mature 


per-mission 

per-petual 

per-secute 

pre-cipice 

per-son 

per-suade 

pur-chase 

per-vade 

pre-caution 


pre-cede 

pre-cedence 

pre-cept 

per-sist 

pre-cision 

pre-cise 

precomp-ose 

precon-sign 

pre-con-demn 


prede-fine 

predes-tine 

predisp-ose 

pre-engage 

pre-exist 

pre-face 

appre-hend 

pre-judice 

pre-lude 


A  MEDLEY  OF  WORDS. 


"Do  not  think  that  I  am  predisposed  to  predestine  you 
to  pre-engage  any  person  to  precompose  this  preface  as 
a  prelude  to  the  premature  epistle  of  your  predecessor. 

"I  must  persist  in  being  precise,  and  this  precision  as 
a  preceptor  causes  me  not  to  precondemn  you,  but  to  pre- 
consign  this  duty,  as  a  precedence,  to  precede  the  epistle 
to  a  person  who  can  nicely  predefine  the  advantages  of  pur- 
chasing a  precipice  for  a  town  lot. 

"Peradventure,  I  do  not  get  such  a  person,  I  may,  per- 
chance, permit  you  or  give  you  the  permission  to  write  it, 
if  you  will  use  precaution  not  to  let  the  person  know  that 
the  lot  is  a  precipice,"  said  Roy. 

"I  do  not  perceive  how  you  could  think  that  I  would 
have  a  hand  in  such  perfidy.  Do  not  allow  such  thoughts 
to  pervade  your  mind.  You  might  apprehend  them  before 
they  pre-exist,"  said  Robert. 

"I  hope  this  speech  of  mine  does  not  so  prejudice  you 
against  me  as  to  cause  you  to  persecute  me  by  perpetually 
speaking  of  it  to  me,"  said  Roy. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


81 


Pre-mise 

pre-notion 

pre-occupy 

prep-osition 

prep-ose 

pres-ent 

pro-cess 

prec-edent 

press-ure 

counter-sign 


pre-sume 

pre-tense 

pre- vise 

pro-bate 

pro-bation 

pro-ceed 

pre-side 

pro-cession 

pro-duce 

pro-fess 


pro-ficient 

pro-fit 

pro-found 

pro-fusion 

pro-hibit 

pro-mise 

pro-n  ounce 

pro-phesy 

pro-phet 

can,  cannot 


prop-ose 

pro-pound 

purp-ose 

pur-sue 

pur-vey 

com-bat 

com-bine 

corn-bust 

come 

come-ly 


THE  PROMISED  PROMOTION. 


Gentlemen,  I  am  not  a  prophet  and  I  do  not  propose  to 
prophesy  that  your  association  will  meet  with  any  combus- 
tion if  you  do  not;  but  I  purpose  to  propose  or  propound  to 
you  a  question: 

Do  you  at  the  present  time  or  in  the  process  of  time 
profess  to  promise  me  a  promotion  to  the  profound  position 
of  pre-occupying  the  president's  seat — the  seat  of  him,  whom 
you  have  so  profusely  pronounced  proficient  to  produce  the 
desired  results,  while  pursuing  the  duties  as  a  head  of  this 
combine? 

I  need  no  pressure,  for,  without  pretense,  I  presume 
you  do,  and  may  I  proceed  to  preside  at  the  head  of  the 
procession  that  is  to  lead  our  president  to  the  combat,  which 
you  in  your  good  sense  have  purveyed  or  prevised  and  made 
a  wise  choice? 

May  I  profit  by  this  and  say  that  your  "probate"  will 
keep  in  high  esteem,  the  deep  impressions  made  on  him  at 
this  probation?  I  say  probation,  for  it  gives  me  a  chance  to 
let  you  see  how  I  appreciate  it. 


82 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Comet 

comm-and 

comm-end 

comm-ence 

coming 

comp-ose 

com-pound 

comm-ode 

com-rade 


comm-une 

com-mute 

comp-anion 

comp-ass 

comm-ission 

comp-etent 

con-federate 

compre-hend 

con-cave 


con-ceal 

con-cede 

con-ceit 

con-ceive 

con-sent 

con-cept 

com-mit 

con-cession 

cond-emn 


condes-cend 

cond-ition 

cond-ole 

con-done 

cond-uct 

con-fab 

comm-ittee 

con-fess 

con-fide 


THE   COMRADE  A  SMUGGLER. 


A  confederate  comrade  had  command  of  the  "Comet," 
k'  fast  liner  on  the  Atlantic  Ocean.  His  companion  con- 
cealed goods  bound  for  the  U.  S.  in  a  concave  part  of  the 
ship  to  escape  paying  duty  on  the  same,  and  confided  this  fact 
to  his  confederate  friend,  which  act  his  friend  condescended 
to  condone,  and  even  commended  him  for  his  conduct. 

A  few  days  later  they  had  a  "confab"  with  a  conmiission 
that  was  appointed  to  commune  with  them  about  the  concepts 
they  had  of  the  ship's  contents  when  the  companion  made 
a  confession  on  condition  that  this  committee  give  him  some 
kind  of  concession.  This  they  refused  to  concede;  but  con- 
deimned  him  and  committed  him  to  Libby  Prison  by  and  with 
the  consent  of  this  confederate. 

A  few  days  later  the  confederate,  coming  to  his  cell  at 
the  prison,  condoled  with  him  and  said,  that  he  would  try  to 
get  the  President  to  commute  his  sentence. 

Now,  what  I  cannot  comprehend  is,  how  such  a  com- 
petent commander  could  commend  the  conceit  of  this  thief, 
even  though  he  was  his  comrade.  I  conjecture  that  the  ship 
was  too  commodious  for  such  a  compound. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND.  83 


Con-fine  con-secute      con-stitution  contra  (     )  coun-sel 

con-fuse  con-sent         con-sul  contra-ry     coun-cil 

con-sign  con-sequence  con-suit  contra-vene  counter  (     ) 

con-fute  con-jugate     con-tain  contri(     )    counter-act 

con-ject  con-secutive  cont-empt  contri-bute  counter-feit 

con-join  con-sist  cont-«nt  con-vene       con-sumate 

conn-ect  con-solidate  con-test  con-vince      con-sume 

conn-ive  cong-ress       cont-inue  con-vey 


WHAT  RIGHTS  HAVE  THE  CONSUL? 

Now  suppose  that  Mr.  R.  C.  Faust  of  Kansas  City, 
Kansas,  be  appointed  or  sent  to  Congress  for  the  second 
time  and  Congress  had  appointed  him  as  consul  to  France 
before  his  time  in  Congress  was  out,  contrary  to  the  wording 
of  the  constitution  of  the  U.  S.,  although  he  was  counseled 
by  his  own  city  council  to  accept  it.  If  some  persons  would 
consolidate  and  contest  the  act,  could  he  be  confined  or  held 
in  contempt  of  the  law,  before  Congress  could  reconvene? 

In  his  confusion,  if  he  continue  in  that  oflace,  consign  or 
convey  the  full  contents  of  his  goods  to  France,  without  the 
consent  of  Congress  and  they  connive  to  cause  him  to  con- 
sume his  time  to  confute  their  evidence  and  convince  the 
judges,  what  would  he  the  consequence?  Would  he  have  to 
consult  the  Congress  or  get  their  consent  before  he  did  these 
things? 

In  the  eyes  of  the  law,  of  what  does  the  holding  of  two 
offices,  at  the  same  time,  consist? 

What  connection  has  congress  with  the  U.  S.  consul? 

I  ask  for  what  you  know,  not  your  conjecture. 


84 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Phono-gra-ph 

phono-gra-phy 

photo-gra-ph 

photo-gra-phy 

geo-gra-phy 

se-gre-gate 

auto-gra-phy 

steno-gra-phy 


litho-gra-ph 

litho-gra-phy 

lineo-gra-ph 

lineo-gra-phy 

mimeo-gra-ph 

con-gre-gation 

auto-gra-ph 

steno-gra-pher 


re-comm-end 
re-comm-en  dation 
e-con-omical  * 
for-the-comm-ittee 
re-cog-nize 
inter-com-mune 
that-comm-ission 
this-cong-ress 


Messrs.  R,  L.  Lloyd  &  Co., 

Kansas  City,  Missouri. 

Gentlemen  : 

The  fifty-fifth  Congress  has  just  appointed  the  committee 

to  pass  on  a  bill  for  the  purchase  of  the  following:* 

%  doz.  Phonographs, 

3  doz.  Photograpns, 

400  Lithograph  Letter  and  Note-Heads, 

3  large  Lineographs, 

3  No.  1  Mimeogrraphs, 

to  be  used  at  the  State  Institutions. 

I  think  the  University  will  teach  Phonography,  or 
Stenography,  Photography,  Lithography,  geography.  Mimeo- 
graph work,  and  Autography  (i.  e.  Penmanship)  as  an  eco- 
nomical expedient  if  the  recognition  by  Congress  of  the  rec- 
ommendation of  this  committee  is  secured. 

The  aggregation  of  expense  will  be  paid  by  the  state. 
The  segregation  of  this  committee  might  mean  something, 
but  to  teach  all  that  congregation  of  pupils  means  some- 
thing, also. 

Your  agent  in  haste. 


See  page  107  for  the  kr  stroke. 


W  JOINED  TO  VOWELS  THAT  ARE  JOINED      85 
TO  CONSONANT. 
The  following  outlines  illustrates  how  w  is  joined  to  vowels 
that  are  joined  to  consonants. 

For  convenience  w  i^f^)  has  two  forms. 
The  vowel  characters  are: 
e a...*! e O...T u oo....66....u....a....aw,...o  ..ow  ... 

©Oo«<-'^'^         '^         ^5/         »  CO 

we...way...wT...we...wo...wy...woo...wd6.  .wu..  wa. ..wau...wo... 
Wept,  wape.  wipp,  weep,  wop,  wipe,  woop,  wup,  wap,  waup, 

X   t.   'V  'VL'^  ^  !^.  !^  '^  ^ 

wope.  weff.  wave,  wiff,  we've  woflP.  wife.  woof,  wuff,  waff, 

...V.  ..\.  x \...\.,.A....'\  A....'\.  ..:\., 

wauf,  wove,  well,  wail,  will,  we'll,  wile,  wool,  wol,.  wal,  wall, 

..^ \.-^.^^..U.^....aJ...^..r^..^^.^ 

wole;  wear,  weigher,  wier,  we're,  wor,  wire,  war,  wooer, 

woor,  were,  ware,  wore;  week,  wake,  wick,  week,  wock 

;^^a_^..^_...^_-.^.^  J^ ^3. 

wyke,  wook,  woock,  wuck,  wack.  walk,  woke,  awoke;  wedge, 

..'^...:^.:^^.....r^..."^.."^...s b ?.... 

wage,  wig,  weeg,  watch,  wige,  wooch,  wug,  wag,  waug,  woge, 

.tx C-^ .1..^ l.XXl 

wet,  wait,  wit,  weet,  wot,  wite,  woote  woot,  wut,  wat,  waut, 
wote,  went, wain, wind,  wean, worn,  wine,  woon,  won, one, wan 

<^J...J. J....l.X.n/.. 7.1.1.1. 

waun,  wone,  wound:  west,  waste,  wist,  wost,  wise,  was,  woes 


86    THE  WEH.  WAY.  YEH  AND  YEA  COMBINATIONS. 

The  weh  ( ^3  9  )  has  two  fonns  to  blend  with  consonants. 
One  of  these  forms  may  be  used  for  way  in  case  the  regular 
form,  "way  (  a  ),"  does  not  blend   with    the  consonant 
strokes. 
The  yeh  or  yea  (00)  may  be  written  the  sa!me 

WelL^J ;.  * 

wail.iSw^ * 

wave..J^ * » 

waif....!A .,  * 

wept....!>r * 

wear..^....T: * 

weigher  ^rrr....* , 

wake..  3:.^!^.. ..*.-. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND.  87 


Wept 

wedge 

sweat 

Yale 

yeast 

wind 

wade 

web 

wage 

pei-suade 

yet 

switch 

yield 

waist 

wave 

swept 

swill 

weep 

sweet 

year 

went 

waif 

swell 

sweep 

weave 

Swede 

week 

wend 

well 

swale 

weight 

we've 

wit 

wane 

wet 

wail 

swear 

yes 

weal 

with 

west 

swain 

wear       suage      yell  wick        weed       waste      wed 

THE  YALE  AND  WILLIAM'S   COLLEGE   GAME, 

At  the  games  on  Boston  Commons,  a  few  years  ago,  you 
may  suppose  that  the  Yale  boys  won  the  cup,  then  in  the 
hands  of  the  Williams  boys,  "The  Swedes." 

So  the  Yale  boys  yelled,  "Let  the  Swedes  wear  the 
'weeds,'  we'll  go  out  west  for  a  week  and  beat  the  best,  for 
we've  swept  the  commons  as  with  a  yeast  like  wave,  and 
this  was  done  ere  the  wane  of  the  sun.  Though  they  wear  the 
weed,  they  must  pay  the  wage  and  yield  to  jis  this  year." 

But  just  as  they  passed  to  the  other*  side  of  the  com- 
mons, a  weak  wail  of  a  waif  was  wafted  to  their*  ears.  It 
seemed  that  the  waif  was  wading  in  a  pool,  as  the  wind  swept 
it  off  its  feet  and  was  sweeping  it  out  into  the  deep  on  the 
swell  of  a  wave.  One  of  the  boys  said,  "Aided  by  the  weight 
of  these  boots  I  will  wade  up  to  my  waist,  and  with  this 
switch  I  will  persuade  it  to  come  to  me,  for  weal  or  for 
woe*,  if  it  has  the  wits." 

Although  he  was  a  swain  and  his  sweater  was  wet  with 
sweat,  he  did  not  swear,  but  went  forth*  and  said,  "Do  not 
weep  and  I'll  lose  no  time  to  waft  you  out  of  the  waves  with 
this  wet  net  or  web.    Just  wait." 

"Well,"  said  the  sweet  boy,  "I'll  wedge  my  way  to  you 
as  best  I  may." 


88         THE  WIH,  WE.  YIH,  YE  COMBINATIONS. 


The  wi  (OS)  and  we  i*^^),  each,  have  two  forms;  yi  and 
ye  ( *«)  may  be  adjusted  any  way  to  accommodate  the  fol- 
lowing strokes 


Weep..^-. *.. 

weave.. A *.. 

we've.. ..\ .....*.. 

Will...w^ *.. 

weal...e-/. *.. 

we'll. .«J. *.. 

we're.5=rTr: *.. 

wick....T^..^ *.. 

week....^~\... *., 

wicks ■: *.. 

weeks.../ *.. 

witch.. .N *.. 

wig..r..wit5-r/...*.. 

weed.^r r>v....*. 

win/:^..  wean. ./...*. 

yield,  t^. *. 

year...*. *. 

■  yeast.. .•/? *. 

wist-ciTT! *. 


OTHER  VOWEL  COMBINATIONS.  89 

The  w5(~  ),  wy  ('i'  ),  woo  ( '^),  w66  (  f>  ),  wu  (  '>  ), 
wS  (7  ),  wau  (  n  ),  w5e  (  i  ),  y^  (  //•),  you  (  3  ),  you 
(  5  ),  yaw  (  f  1 ),  yen  (  c  ),  are  joined  to  consonant  strokes 
as  follows: 

'    Watch  .y!^....wat..'^^^rr/..* 

wipe.  .^....  wife.. ^ * 

^     vfile.xsJ..  wire..f?r 


wide..<;rr:T> wine. 2/.* 

wise. .  ."i^. wooer  fyyTrrr* 

wool  Q^....^wood *. 

women../:/ * 

one.../ once...... * 

wareXw«\yax < * 

wag....'j^ wan.^f!^ * 

wall .0^... war  .'^rrrrr: * 

walk. ..7?N.. walks...?. * 

want.  .'V^ . . . .  wove. . .. .  .\  ..* 

wore  .^rrrr:..  woke.. 7T\....* 

yacht.. V^^^■r^<'.  .yon.,  e/. * 

youth  «rr>. .  .young .  .,}..* 

Yankee.. .5 * 

yawl.L</.  ..yore.^Trrr:....*. 

yeoman.  .<?^ * 

awoke... T^ * 

New  York. A * 


90 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Swab 

swipe 

woo 

won-one 

wall 

'twas 

woke 

wasp 

twine 

woof 

were 

walk 

wound 

awoke 

swop 

wire 

swoop 

word 

swath 

yacht 

twice 

waft 

wide 

twain 

wax 

Swope 

yon 

watch 

wine 

swoon 

swag 

wove 

wild 

swan 

swine 

wool 

twin 

wore 

walks 

wipe 

wise 

wood 

swam 

swore 

wife 

Mrs.  William  R.  Swope,  '  !    '■  •'    ', 

Omaha,  Neb.  '  ' 

Dear  Friend: 

Some  two  weeks  ago  I  wired  you  about  my  wife's  swoon 
o'er  a  sting  of  a  wasp.  Since  then  she  did  not  walk  out  for 
o'er  a  year.  Once  we  thought  she*  would  die.  The  wound 
was  so  serious  one  night,  we  gave  her*  wine  and  watched 
with  her  all  that  night. 

It  happened  this  way:  My  wife  and  I  had  just  got  into 
our  yacht  on  a  wide  pond  by  the  woods,  when  we  saw  a  wild 
swan  swoop  swiftly  down  to  swim  on  the  pond.  I  "swopped" 
seats  with  her,  and  as  she  went  to  put  her  hand  on  the  woolen 
woof  of  the  seat  she  wiped  her  hand  o'er  a  wasp,  then  she 
thought  to  waft  it  with  one  "swipe"  off  the  seat. 

There*  was  a  hole  in  the  fine  woven  woof  of  the  seat, 
that  the  rope  wore  while  towing  and  a  "swab"  of  wool  was 
stuffed  in  the  hole.  She  caught  her  hand  in  this  when  she 
received  the  sting. 

It  may  not  have  been  wise,  but  Will  Boyd  swore  that  he 
would  cure*  it  with  bees-wax  that  he  got  off  the  wall  by  the 
old  well.  When  we  put  this  on,  her  hand  swelled.  This 
awoke  her  and  she  wailed  with  pain. 

I  have  seen  the  twins  but  twice.  'Twas  when  the  twain 
were  at  our  house  for  some  twine. 

Hoping  for  your  success,  I  am, 


EXPEDIENTS  TO  BE  OBSERVED.  91 

When  short  u  or  oo  occurs  between  consonants,  and  are  not 
accented,  unless  used  to  express  another  sound,  it  need  not 
be  recorded. 

The  short  a,  for  convenience,  may  be  expressed  by  moving 
back  on  former  stroke  to  commence  the  following  stroke,  and 
the  sounds  of  "aw,  ah,  ow,  and  oy"  may  be  expressed  by 
setting  back  in  the  opposite  direction  from  which  the  follow- 
ing stroke  is  to  be  made  to  commence  the  following  stroke 

Cuff...7V * 

buff...-S^ ..*..-: ,. 

enough  A * •. 

cook....r!\^ * 

judge.... C .....* , 

calf...'V * 

character...^.....*.... 


value. ..\w *.. 

follow..N^ *. 

taffy. .sJl^ *, 

staff.. ^.... * 

coffee. .TV ."•, 

cough. TA^ *. 

caucus.TA *. 

stock. .?r\ *. 

routed .  .rrrS*^. .  * . 
appointment^^/ .  * 
dotted^ 


92 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Puff         recover     Duff 

gull 

stalk 

patch 

batch 

buff         fun            stuff 

Taft 

coffee 

ratchet 

gawk 

enough    Gov.          value 

daft 

coffin 

hatchet 

chuffy 

huffy       hook          half 

staff 

golf 

catch 

cuff          cook          chaff 

hawk 

doff 

cougar 

uncover   character  quaif 

horse 

fond 

judge 

discover  tough        caught 

stock 

calf 

chalk 

GOV.  DUFF'S  COOK  AND  JUDGE  TAFT. 


Gov.  Duff's  cook,  a  chuffy  fellow  of  a  tough  character, 
with  his  coat  puffed  above  his  buff  cuffs,  had  just  quaffed 
enough  wine  to  make  him  huffy,  when  Judge  Taft,  riding  a 
bay  horse,  doffed  his  hat  to  the  cook,  half  in  fun  and  half  to 
"patch"  up  an  old  feud  of  some  two  years'  standing,  when 
the  judge  uncovered  with  a  hook,  a  hatchet,  a  typewriter 
ratchet,  a  coffin  lid,  a  mounted  hawk,  the  hide  of  a  cougar, 
and  some  chalk  that  the  judge  accused  him  of  "gulling"  out 
of  some  one. 

The  cook  was  fond  of  golf  and  did  not  know  the  value  of 
time;  neither  did  the  judge,  so  ere  the  judge  could  recover 
his  bow  to  the  gawk,  the  cook  invited  him  to  take  stock  in 
a  game  of  golf.  He  accepted,  tied  his  horse  to  a  coffee  stalk 
nigh  a  patch  of  weeds,  and  a  batch  of  chaff  puffed  into  the 
horse's  face  just  as  a  calf  passed  by  with  some  stuff  in  its 
mouth.  The  horse  discovered*  it  and  tried  to  catch  the  calf. 
This  caused  the  calf  to  cough  and  let  the  stuff  fall,  which  the 
horse  caught  up  as  quickly  as  it  fell. 


WORD  BUILDING.  9? 


By  applying  preceding  rules  and  principles,  words  may  be 
built  as  illustrated  below 


Has.-i-. had. ...I *.. 

hat  .i....Hattie....l' .*.. 

hated hast.-.U *.. 

hand... It... Hammond. v.*  , 

Hattan.....l/ *. 

hatter...^...  hap..... *. 

hazzard.. J.. enhance... r...  *. 

happy... happen...,...,^*. 

happier...., *. 

happiest..... *. 

mishap.....^ *. 

happiness ....  ..y * 

hoe. .J hope... *. 

hopeless.  „....!... *. 


hopelessness......  jf. ,...*. 

)ernaps...N,...*. 


hotel.. .J perhaps...,.., 

hoping. ........ home.  ^ *. 


homely. .<i. Homer  ..«L—  * 


04  STROKES  COMMENCING  WITH  S. 


All  of  these  strokes  are  written  downward;  vowels  are 
joined  to  the  lower  end  and  rules  are  applied  the  same  to 
them  as  to  all  other  strokes. 

If  a  vowel  is  joined  to  the  beginning  of  the  shr,  sh,  shl  or 
shn  strokes  the  hook  is  to  be  omitted.  Following  vowel 
characters  are  read  between  thcsk.  or  sh  and  following  r, 
1  or  n  sounds'   Use  ah  for  aw 

Shr..;...sh...l..8hl!|.  ..shn-shm  .1 ..  skr sk./...sl/..8n-sm..^ 

Sure...!? msure..?. * 


insurance. 


.f •. 

should ...1... show. .<1..  *. 
shall  ..\^..  machine  yf.  ....*. 

you  shall  be....p. .-...*. 

shawl ..{. scare *. 

shun...| shame. .j *. 

'  ^     „_:„.d      » 


screw. ..r'. script'^..  . 

scout. .6!! scribe.^^ — *. 

slip. . .  .^ sleep.  ^^ .  .* . 

smile  /TT.. shape. ..^.... *. 
snap...^^....snipe^^^>.....  *. 

subsc^ption^^  .It * . 

subscriber. . . ..-. * . 

scold/T..school.^^ *. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


95 


Shear 

shay 

shout 

shawl 

shire 

shade 

should  be 

shalt 

sure 

she'd 

you  should 

shame 

sure  to  be 

shot 

I  should 

machine 

shirt 

shod 

shell 

shun 

short 

she'd 

sure  to  have  had 

sham 

share 

shy 

she'll  do 

shanty 

shower 

shale 

sheet 

shone 

shear 

shoe 

shield 

she  may 

insure 

shaw 

shilling 

shine 

insurance 

show 

shall 

shin 

shed 

shoot 

shall  be 

sheen 

MR.  RIGHT   THE   INSURANCE   MAN. 


One  day,  Mr.  Right  jumped  into  his  "one-horse  shay" 
and  drove  out  to  the  country  to  sell  insurance.  He  had  not 
gone  far  when  a  shower  came  up,  so  he  drove  under  the 
shade  of  an  ash  nigh  by,  but  it  promised  to  be  more  than  a 
shower,  so  Mr.  Right  decided  to  look*  around  for  better  shel- 
ter from  the  storm*  and  spied  a  shanty  or  shed  not  far* 
away.  He  went  to  it  and  found  the  shed  to  be  a  blacksmith 
shop. 

The  blacksmith  and  his  good  wife  stayed  in  a  shanty 
nigh  by.  While  waiting  for  the  storm  to  pass,  Mr.  Right 
thought  he  would  have  his  horse  shod.  As  the  Smith  was 
putting  shoes  on  the  horse  you  should  have  seen  Mr.  Right 
persuading  the  smith  to  have  his  life*  insured. 

The  smith  said,  "I  shall  be  glad  to  have  some  insurance, 
but  I  am  not  sure,  as  to  what  my  wife  would  say  about  it.'* 
"But,"  said  Mr.  Right,  "if  you  can  show  her  the  advantage 
of  it  I  am  sure  she  will  acquiesce." 

So  the  smith  sent  Mr.  Right  into  the  house  to  see  his 
wife  about  the  insurance.  He  hesitated  some,  but  soon 
found  courage  and  went  in. 

She  was  cutting  out  a  shirt  for  her  husband,  and  was 
about  to  sew  it  on  a  machine.  She  shot  a  glance  at  him 
that  seemed  to  say  that  she  would  rather  shun  him  than 
have  him  speak  on  insurance. 

Mr.  Right  knew  she  was  almost  deaf,  so  he  spread  out 
his  sheets  and  shouted  to  her  about  the  insurance. 

She  was  ashamed  to  think  her  husband  would  be  in- 
sured, and  said,  "He  shall  not  insure." 


96 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Screw 

school 

sled 

sly 

snow 

secure 

skull 

slate 

slough 

snipe 

scarce 

scald 

scold 

slip 

snoop 

slow 

skirt 

sleet 

slice 

snug 

score 

escape 

sleep 

slept 

smut 

Scran ton 

scope 

sloop 

sluice 

smite 

scream 

sky 

slap 

slew 

smoothe 

scored 

skate 

slab 

slick 

Smith 

escort 

scat 

slot 

Sloan 

smile 

slight 

small 

scribe 

subscribe 

subscription 

THE  TRUANT  BOYS'  ESCAPADE. 


John  Sloan  and  William  Smith  of  Scranton,  Penn.,  two 
youths  about  eighteen  years  of  age,  and  a  score  of  others*, 
slapped  the  books  and  slates  o'er  their*  shoulders  and  slipped 
away  from  school  to  go  hunting  snipe  in  the  deep  snow. 

They  each  had  a  small  sled,  so  that  they  might  slide  on 
the  smooth,  slick  slopes  of  a  high  hill*  by  the  sluice-way, 
down  to  a  slough  at  the  foot  of  a  sluice-way. 

They  each  wore  a  smile  and  were  not  slow  to  escape  the 
scan  of  their*  school  master. 

Some  had  skates  and  thought  to  slide  on  the  sluice-way 
just  as  they  espied  a  cat  "snooping"  about  a  lot  of  snipe 
that  seemed  to  be  asleep  in  the  outskirts  of  the  woods.  One 
of  the  boys  said,  "seat,  and  thought  to  smite  it  with  a  stone, 
when  his  foot  slipped  and  he  smote  his  skull  against  a  slab 
on  the  side  of  the  sluice-way  which  cut  quite  a  slice  in  his 
scalp. 

His  screams  aroused  his  school  teacher,  who  slept  in  a 
house  "nigh  by."  Scarcely  a  moment  passed  ere  he  was  at 
the  sluice-way  to  escort  the  boys  to  his  home  where  he  scolded 
them  for  being  so  snobbish  and  for  escaping  from  school. 


STROKES  COMMENCING  WITH  P  OR  B. 

The  student  will  observe  that  there  are  four  lengths  of 
strokes,  with  the  exception  of  the  pl..^...blA...  If  or Iv. -/.... 
strokes.  Great  care  should  be  used  to  have  these  strokes 
the  right  length ,  right  slant  and  right  direction 

P.....Sr....b...L pk-pg...(^...bk-bg...L...pl .  \  ,  h\..K^.., 

Pick..;J^ * ^r 

pug-.-V;^.  ..pack...(^^^....,* 

book.. I back.  .1. * 


pocket .^^^^. 

became.  .(.....become.(....*. 


begin.. L....  began. .(.....* 

because (. /^*. 

bigger  ...L^. * 

play...S?...^re.^ 


ply.... ^..... pile f^...*. 


bill...W h\\ie..U\ *. 

bowl...^^ Ijelow..^ *. 

believe...<>« * 

bluff.... .^. *. 

plenty...!^. *. 


playing...v?^ *. 


billing.  ....V«.. 
building..  J«o. 


98 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Expect 

pike 

apex 

become 

respect 

pack 

boxing 

became 

inspect 

package 

backing 

bucking 

suspect 

poke 

baking 

you  become 

despicable 

picket 

opaque 

we  begun 

peek 

packer 

patch 

you  begin 

peak 

poker 

beckon 

begin 

pocket 

begun 

began 

bike 

baker 

bicker 

bugle 

buckle 


MR.  BAKER'S  GAME  OF  POKER. 


Q.     Mr.  Baker,  do  you  know  Mr.  Edward  Peking? 

A.    I  saw  him  once. 

Q.    Where  were  you  when  you  saw  him? 

A.  I  was  standing  on  an  opaque  rock*  at  the  apex  of 
Pike's  Peak  with  my  hands  in  my  pockets  and  a  pug  by  the 
name  of  Puck  by  my  side. 

Q.    How  did  you  get  acquainted  with  him? 

A.  He  was  riding  on  a  "bike"  with  a  bugle  in  a  box, 
buckled  to  his  belt,  and  as  soon  as  I  saw  him,  I  began  to 
beckon  for  him  to  come  to  me.  When  he  came  up  to  where 
I  was,  I  noticed  a  patch  on  his  vest  and  a  package  in  his 
hand.  I  asked  to  inspect  the  package,  at  which  he  became 
offended  and  was  quite  disrespectful.  He  said,  "I  did  not 
expect  you  to  ask  such  a  question." 

Q.     Did  you  two  have  a  game  of  poker? 

A.  We  did.  After  we  had  bickered  in  respect  to  the 
package  and  I  saw  that  he  suspected  me.  I  asked  him  to 
begin  a  game  of  poker  with  me,  and  he  said  he  would  not  do 
so  unless  the  picket  would  act  as  his  backer,  for  he  was  not 
pleased  with  my  despicable  question  when  he  came  up. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


99 


Rebuke 

apply 

aback 

pail 

plow 

pickle 

pile 

bail 

plea 

able  c 

picking 

bacon 

blue 

plot 

bell     '^ 

peeking 

begging 

ball 

plight 

bowl 

opaque 

beggar 

Powell 

applause 

plate 

packing 

book 

bag 

bled 

blaze 

packet 

buck 

apple 

pull 

please 

blot 

backing 

opal 

place 

plate 

repack 

bleed 

bless 

bliss 

beg 

A  PICNIC  ON  PIKE'S  PEAK. 


In  the  fall,  Bill,  Opal  and  Able  Powell. built  a  house  on 
the  apex  of  Pike's  Peak.  It  was  a  pleasant  place  where  no 
beggars  came  and  no  begging  was  done.  Each  had  the  pocket- 
book  full. 

They  had  moved  into  the  house,  unpacked  all  of  the 
goods  save  a  packet  or  package  that  they  repacked,  and 
were  in  quite  a  plight  when  some  of  the  neighbors  invited 
them  to  a  picnic,  saying  that  it  was  now  the  last  of  the 
week,  their  plowing  was  all  done,  the  school  books  were  put 
away  and  that  they  had  planned  the  picnic  for  Saturday.* 

Opal  packed  a  complete  lunch*  containing  a  bag  of 
apples,  a  bowl  of  pickles  and  a  plate  of  baker's  cake. 

On  the  way  to  the  picnic  grounds*  the  pail  fell  off  the 
bail,  spilling  the  cake  which  Puck,  the  pug,  ate  with  bliss. 
This  plight  made  them  feel  blue,  so  they  plotted  to  play 
baU. 

Bill  saw  a  buck  peeking  around  some  opaque  rocks*,  and 
picking  up  a  pole,  he  pulled  it  back  to  poke  the  buck  in  the 
eye.  This  caused  it  to  bleed  so  badly  that  it  bled  to  death. 
He  then  applied  the  pole  to  poke  it  off  the  bluff. 

This  did  not  please  Opal  and  she  rebuked  him  as  she 
built  a  blaze,  for  she  thought  of  baking  some  of  its  flesh. 
This  she  did,  and  they  had  that  instead  of  cake  for  the  picnic 
lunch.* 

*See  page  122  for  the  tr  stroke,  page  134  for  the  gr 
stroke,  and  page  126  for  the  rk  stroke,  also  page  107  for  the 
nch  stroke. 


100 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Blossom 

playing 

employ 

blazing 

blinding 

blight 

platting 

double 

blasting 

bloom 

blood 

ability 

noble 

applauding 

bland 

plain 

ablaze 

Mabel 

platen 

blown 

plane 

ample 

belting 

comply 

supply 

plant 

imply 

bolting 

maple 

complete 

plumb 

simple 

blotting 

plan 

topple 

plump 

simply 

blighting 

blind 

Dear  Miss  Mable  Noble: 
Bloomington,  111. 

A  hot  wind  has  been  blowing  all  day,  and  has  blown 
down  or  toppled  every  shock  of  wheat  we  have,  blighted  thu 
blossom  of  every  rose  on  the  plains  and  it  is  so  late  in  the 
year  that  they  will  not  bloom  again  this  summer.  This  is  not 
only  true  of  the  rose,  but  of  all  other  blossoms,  so  that  the 
bee  cannot  comply  with  its  plans  to  give  us  a  good  supply  of 
honey. 

We  shall  have  to  supplant  honey  with  maple  sugar.  Do 
not  imply  from  this  that  the  blighting  of  the  blossom  robbed 
us  of  all  of  our  sweet-meats,  for  we  were  able  to  save  a  good 
supply  of  plum  jelly  and  maple  sugar  from*  last  year's 
supply. 

Last  year,  the  plums  were  plump  and  we  simply  employed 
those  simple  boys  who  do  the  blasting  in  the  mines,  and 
bolting  flour*  in  the  mills,  to  pick  a  double  supply  of  plums. 
So  the  blighting  of  the  blossom  did  not  completely  rob  us 
of  sweet-meats. 

Ella  and  Roy  are  applauding  little*  May  for  wrapping 
a  blotting  paper  around  the  platen  of  my  typewriter  and 
playing  that  the  typewriter  is  blind.  A  while  ago,  she  was 
platting  some  yam*  to  use  for  belting  for  our  sewing  ma- 
chine. With  best  wishes  to  all,  I  am. 

Your  Sister, 


STROKES  COMMENCING  WITH  F  OR  V.        101 

Vowels  and  rules  are  applied  the  same  to  all  consonant 
strokes  of  similar  nature,  but  the  vowels  written  at  the  end 
of  strokes  having  two  or  more  sounds,  may  be  read  either 
between  or  at  the  end  of  those  sounds.  The  f  and  v  are 
treated  as  the  same  strokes.  The  long  strokes  may  be  read 
with  the  sounds  of  j  or  ch  at  the  end  instead  ofg  or  k  sounds. 

Fr-vr..... f-y...\...  fl-vl..\ ...fk-fg-vkVvg-fj-vj-fch-vch. 

Fear...* free..^. * 

every....!*...  very...  V* * 

several \<. ..* 

advertise....\V * 

advertiser " * 

advertising r"...^...* 

advertisement....' * 

value.. \^..  valuable.  \^^* 

feel. .\.... flee. ..\ * 

fell..\ fulL-N^ * 

flow.V floor  .Ny * 

fact.V folks.V....* 

factory..... \. * 

figurative  ......V......;...* 

following..  V,...^ * , 

fellow.  V...  flow. \ * 

form.>f farm..V^  * 

France..V....first..'yr...* 


102 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Ever 

affray 

phrase 

affright 

France 

over 

free 

fierce 

fruit 

farther 

sever 

far 

freeze 

fraught 

fringe 

safer 

fire 

farce 

friend 

forcing 

offer 

fry 

verse 

frame 

inference 

suffer 

fewer 

aver 

frighten 

fairer 

so  far  as 

fur 

fort 

from 

affairs 

cipher 

fair 

effort 

farm 

you  freight 

fare 

for 

freight 

foreign 

I  fear 

fear 

four 

afford 

afraid 

we  forage 

Mr.  Fred  Ford, 

Fair  Plains,  Iowa. 
Dear  Friend: 

While  we  were  out  on  the  farm  last  year  we  had  a  farcp 
play,  in  which  we  forced  a  friend  of  ours,  who  avers  that 
he  could  write  a  verse  without  a  phrase  in  it,  to  wear  a 
fringe  frock.  We  had  hardly  fraught  our  friend  with  this 
farce  when  we  affrighted  a  fowl  that  was  eating  new  fruit 
from  the  boughs  of  a  plum. 

The  day  was  very  fair,  yes,  fairer  than  ever  before.  We 
did  not  freeze  as  you  and  I  froze  when  you  were  with  us. 
You  know  how  we  suffered — ^but  I  shall  not  write  further 
about  this. 

A  boy  paid  our  fare  and  we  went  over  an  old  ford  to 
a  frame  fort  that  the  forces  of  the  south  built  when  they 
sent  a  cipher  code  to  France  about  some  foreign  affairs. 
You  know  of  the  effort. 

We  sold  our  farm  today  and  father  bought  no  fewer 
than  forty  furs  for  his  friends,  so  they  would  not  suffer  in 
the  fierce  gale  that  is  to  blow  all  of  this  week.  That  is 
what  the  weather*  man*  says. 

We  are  packing  our  trunks  today  as  we  are  to  set  sail 
for  France  on  Friday.  You  know  our  trunks  do  not  go  by 
freight  but  are  sent  free  of  fare. 

So  far  as  I  know,  I  fear  your  freight  will  be  delayed. 
The  inference  is  that  the  soldiers  are  to  forage  soon,  and  if 
they  do,  it  will  delay  our  freight,  also. 

From  your  friend, 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


103 


Evil 

fell 

flay 

flat 

flame 

civilize 

felt 

inflate 

flask 

flaunt 

civilization 

feel 

flee 

flaw 

flown 

weevil 

field 

fleet 

flow 

flounce 

swivel 

fill 

fleece 

float 

fluent 

influence 

file 

flit 

Floyd 

floor 

confluence 

fool 

flight 

phlegm 

flare 

affluence 

full 

fly 

flame 

flowers 

pre-valent 

fault 

flew 

flimsy 

fellow 

pro-fliprate 

false 

flute 

felon 

value 

THE  PROFLIGATE'S  REMORSE. 


It  was  noised  about  the  city  a  few  days  ago,  that  a 
profligate,  who  had  been  brought  in  by  a  French  fleet,  had 
flayed  a  mate  and  put  acid  on  the  wound  to  inflate  it.  The 
felon  was  put  on  the  first  floor  of  the  city  jail  by  the  civil 
officers.  , 

The  prevalent  opinion  was,  that  his  influence  with  Floyd, 
the  jailer,  was  fraught  with  evil.  The  people  said  that  Floyd 
was  false  to  his  trust  and  guilty  of  aiding  him  in  his  flight. 
Yet,  some  say  it  was  no  fault  of  his;  that  the  profligate  went 
under  the  floor. 

The  felon  had  been  a  fellow  of  affluent  and  fluent  means; 
but  he  had  failed  in  business  and  thus  his  fall. 

He  fled  from  jail  and  from  civilization  out  into  a  field 
of  wheat.  As  he  lay  flat  in  the  field  of  wheat  and  saw  weevril 
in  it — knowing  that  it  could  not  be  used  for  flour — he  thought 
of  the  flaws  in  his  life. 

From  thence  he  went  to  the  confluence  of  two  streams* 
and  sat  down  by  a  flume.  He  saw  the  water*  flow  past  and 
on  it  was  a  float,  and  on  the  float  was  a  flute,  a  flask,  a 
swivel,  and  a  file.  As  the  float  passed  him  he  thought,  "Thus 
do  I  float  down  the  stream  of  time  and  fool  my  life*  away." 

He  saw  a  blue-jay  fly  above  him,  and  as  it  flitted  from 
bough  to  bough  of  an  old  elm,  it  seemed  to  flaunt  its  liberty 
before  him.  As  a  fleecy  cat  sought  to  flounce  upon  it,  it 
flew.    The  felon  said,  "Oh,  that  I  could  thus  flee  from  sin." 

The  flare  of  a  flimsy  flame  from  a  hut  aroused  him  as 
he  arose;  and  he  wished  he  might  reform. 


104  CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Affect 

manufactory 

if  you're  to 

effect 

fickle 

if  we  are  to 

infect 

if  I  could 

we've  let  you  have  the 

figs 

if  we  could 

if  we'll  be 

fake 

if  'ey  could 

if  vou'll  be 

fix 

if  we're  to  have  the 

if  'ey'll  be 

fiction 

we  have  caught 

we've  written 

figure 

I've  got 

I've  read 

factory 

you've  goods 

you've  read 

affection 

we've  your 

we've  rates 

faction 

I've  your 

you've  let  us 

fictitious 

you've  our 

THE  VALUE  OF  THIS  COMPOSITION. 

All  stories  in  this  book  are  fiction  and  should  not  affect 
the  reader,  other*  than  to  effect  a  better  command  of  words. 

If  I  could,  if  you  could,  if  he  could,  or  if  they  could  use 
better  speech; — I  say  if  we  could  speak  better,  then  we  have 
caught  the  spirit  or  object  of  this  composition.  YOU  HAVE 
GOOD  REASON  TO  STUDY  IT. 

You  may  figure  that  although  you  work*  in  a  factory 
where  they  manufacture  goods  and  a  fickle  faction  is  all 
around  you — ^they  say  you  are  a  fake  and  that  you  use  fic- 
titious words  and  that  they  do  not  care  a  fig  for  what  you 
say — yet,  you  have  your  reward,  and  we  have  our  reward  for 
the  study,  for  we  shall  infect  their  speech  for  the  better. 

If  you  are  to,  if  we  are  to,  or  if  they  are  to  have  the 
respect  of  scholars,  we,  you  and  they  must  study  the  com- 
mand of  words. 

We  have  let  you  have  the  book,  so  that,  if  you  will  be, 
if  he  will  be,  if  they  will  be,  or  if  we  will  be  valuable  linguists, 
you,  he,  they,  or  we  will  have  to  study  this  shorthand  right. 

I  have  read  the  shorthand,  you  have  read  it,  and  we  have 
written  it  over  and  over  again. 


STROKES  COMMENCING  WITH  L.  105 


Theae  strokes  are  recorded  upward.  The  It'-lv  stroke  is  no 
larger  than  a  vowel  character.  They  may  be  used  for  "self  or 
selves."  Vowels  and  rules  are  applied  the  same  to  these 
strokes  as  to  all  other  consonant  characters...,,, , 


Lf-lv..J^v,.lr.^..l~J....ls.--/...lk-lg-lj-lch-^. 

love..^ laugh. ..^ * 

leav^«..,.-^.roaf  ..^. * 

live..^. leaf...--?^....* , 

eleven.ftjP life.^^-y  •  * , 

lawyer.-/^..legai--^.....* 

yourself  ...Orrrrrf'. ;....* , , 

ourselves...  srrrrr * ....,..,., 

lower..-7.^.  letter. -5..^* , 

likely  .~<<\..lQ^ge -»*/...* „ 

election  ..a--^.....«.. * 

locomotive...  «.^. * ; 

select ft^ himself. i^....  * 

herself.. t!...  myself./^..* 

you'll  have-.o^. * 

ril  haveto  be..^ * 


will  you  have  to  be..^...*. 


106 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


himself 

self 

we'll  go 

laugh 

Left 

you'll  cut 

life 

legislate 

we'll  keep 

enliven 

liken 

self-enlight 

herself 

elf 

self -deny 

themselves 

lake 

selfishness 

itself 

likely 

Pennsylvania 

yourself 

myself 

you'll  have  to  be 

elevator 

ourselves 

they'll  have  to  be 

alive 

locally 

he  will  have  to  be 

aloof 

legal 

I  will  have  to  be 

elect 

select 

we  will  have  to  be 

leave 

I'll  get 

we  will  have  had 

THIS  IS  A  SELFISH  PROPOSITION. 


Of  all  of  the  selves;  yourself,  yourselves,  ourselves,  them 
selves,  myself,  herself,  himself,  and  itself;  the  self-enlight- 
ened are  the  most  selfish  and  the  self-denying  are  full  of 
selfishness. 

If  the  most  select,  at  a  special  election,  elect  a  repre- 
sentative to  the  legislature  of  Pennsylvania,  he  will  have  to 
be  of  their  set.  If  you  are  that  representative  you  will  have 
to  be  alive  to  their  interests*,  a  likely  fellow,  full  of  life,  free 
from  legal  complications,  a  local  leader,  and  they  will  have 
to  be  your  special  friends  or  they  will  laugh  at  you  and  keep 
aloof  from  you,  go  a  fishing  on  the  lakes  on  election  days, 
or,  to  enliven  matters,  liken  you  to  a  sucker. 

"Good  by.  We  will  have  to  go  in  the  elevator,"  said 
Albert.  "I  will  get  the  elevator  boy  to  run  it,  for  you  will 
cut  yourself  on  the  cable  if  you  try  to  run  it,"  said  Cora. 
"We  will  have  had  a  ride  in  the  elevator  before  evening;  the 
boy  was  in  the  elevator  a  while  ago,"  said  Robert. 


STROKES  COMMENCING  WITH  K,  ALSO        107 
NK  AND  NG. 


Vowels  and  rules  are  applied  the  same  to  these  as  to  all 
other  consonant  characters. 


kr../...k..j..kl...|.kn-kni...^^.ks...  ..nk-nich.  j nj-ng ..j. 

Cart.. !?.... card. ..^..  * ! 


courageous 

character...  71*^^ *. 

could. 7^... cut.  !7N * 

cull..7!\..claW.~\ *• 

coIlege.-.T^ *. 

collect  ..r!\ *. 

inclose. *T\. 


magazine m *...Trr77....^^.:.w*;^:^;.....'/. j^. 

sink.../...  make.. ^ * .' 


knock. v). much../...*. 

language.  ,-<rJ;, *. 

long — 7). . .  bank .  .V.- . .  .* . 
wrong. . . .") .  strong.rT^' 


thank<rTrN..court. .  .^. 


108 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Acre 

core 

courage 

crown 

cruel 

euchre 

cry 

courageous 

cart 

corral 

ochre 

curse 

discourage 

card 

crawl 

seeker 

crew 

encourage 

court 

cringe 

sucker 

cream 

criss-cross 

crease 

accrue 

Walker 

cruise 

colonel 

crust 

corn 

care 

carry 

increase 

curl 

crime 

car 

Cora 

cramp 

Carl 

crumb 

cure 

crazy 

crony 

choral 

crate 

CORA  AND  CARL'S  CRUISE. 


Cora  and  Carl  Walker  landed  on  a  coral  island  with  a  dis- 
couraged crew.  They  lost  their  courage  when  they  saw  that 
their  cruise  brought*  them  to  an  island  on  which  there*  was 
not  an  acre  of  soil — ^no  not  even  yellow  ochre  that  would 
raise  com.  This  was  not  very  encouraging,  for  they  knew 
not  how  to  meet  such  a  crisis  with  only  a  few  apple-cores, 
one  crate  of  crackers,  crums  of  some  cake,  crusts  of  bread 
with  no  cream,  and  a  cringing  squirrel  that  had  just  crawled 
out  of  an  old  cart,  also,  a  crisp  new  ten  dollar*  bill. 

Colonel  Walker,  the  father  of  Cora  and  Carl,  and  a  few 
of  his  cronies  were  seekers  of  pearl  shells  that  might  accrue 
on  the  beach  by  the  tide. 

Cora  knew  that  her*  father  had  cards  and  she  asked  him 
for  them  so  that  she  might  play  a  game  of  euchre  with  Carl, 
when  he  cursed  her  until*  she  cried.  He  said  card  playing 
was  a  crime  and  that  her  curls  needed  her*  care. 

Cora  was  very  courageous  and  had  just  received  a 
"crown"  for  her  choral  singing. 

Carl,  while  carrying  a  crate  to  a  corral,  was  seized  with 
cramps.  The  crate  fell  and  the  contents  splashed  across  a 
table  upon  his  cross  father  who  became  very  cruel  to  him. 
The  father's  mood  had  been  criss-cross  all  day. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


109 


Uncle 

Cal. 

sickle 

call 

cycle 

Colo. 

inclose 

cowel 

include 

coil 

incline 

class 

inclement 

close 

exclude 

cult 

clay 

colt 

kill 

cold 

keel 

clod 

coal 

cloud 

cull 

collect 

college 

click 

cling 

claim 

clam 

I  call  to  see  you 

climate 

clear 

cloudy 

clump 

clumsy 

acclimate 

clime 


Mr.  Fred  Call, 

Denver,  Colo. 
Dear*  Friend  Fred : 

I  have  just  received  a  letter  from*  Uncle  Clyde,  inviting 
me  to  spend  my  vacation  with  him.  He  also  requests  that  I 
bring  my  friends  with  me. 

When  I  read  the  letter,  I  thought  of  you.  All  will  be  ex- 
cluded from  the  estate  but  ourselves  and  our  college  class- 
mates. 

On  my  way,  I  shall  call  for  you  and  we  will  go  up  into 
the  foot-hills  of  Colorado  to  collect  the  rest  of  our  cult  (class- 
mates) . 

Uncle's  estate  is  situated  near  a  beautiful  bay  in  C^i- 
fomia  and  consists  of  an  old  colonial  home  with  all  of  its 
•  surroundings*  in  the  center  of  a  fine  forest.  Clumps  of  rose- 
bushes nestle  close  to  the  great*  trees*  of  the  forest.  Ivy 
vines  coiling  around  large  pillars  and  clinging  to  the  massive 
walls  of  the  building,  give  it  a  look  of  grandeur. 

You  need  not  fear  bad  colds  for  the  weather  in  that  part 
of  California  is  never  inclement.  The  people  do  not  experi- 
ence the  cold,  cloudy  days  which  we  do  in  this  country. 

We  shall  include  in  our  sports:  'cycling,  riding  colts, 
killing  wild  geese,  gathering  clams,  culling  coal,  sickling 
grass,  crushing  clods  of  clay  as  we  climb  the  cliffs  and  col- 
lect rents  from  the  tenants. 

With  kindest  wishes,  I  am. 

One  of  Your  Cult. 


110 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Common 

connect 

second 

come  home 

knock 

canning 

anxious 

magazine 

cane 

cunning 

you  can  see  us 

continue 

kin 

country 

you  and  I  could 

make 

keen 

county 

I  come  to  see  you 

income 

kind 

account 

you  come  to  see  us 

nook 

coon 

contain 

connection 

knick 

cannon 

coinage 

communicate 

knack 

Canton 

commit 

seek  them 

next 

sicken 

weaken 

much 

notch 

Mr.  Carl  Coon, 

New  Haven,  Conn. 
Dear  Friend: 

Enclosed  is  a  clipping  of  your  communication  to  the 
"Ladies'  Magazine."  In  connection  with  this  is  a  cunning 
article,  giving  the  account  of  the  coinage  of  gold  in  this 
country. 

I  cannot  in  any  way  connect  our  President  at  Canton, 
with  this  kind  of  an  article,  for  its  keen  comments  are  not  in 
keeping  with  his  common  views  on  that  subject. 

You  and  I  could  weaken  the  influence  of  the  second 
article  without  committing  ourselves. 

The  next  time  I  come  to  see  you  I  shall  expect  a  treat  to 
nick-knacks.  I  am  anxious  to  come  home  in  time  to  see  the 
"coons"  cut  the  cane  while  some  of  their*  kin  are  canning 
some  of  the  Ray  County  tomatoes. 

I  am  not  making  very  much  now  and  all  of  my  income 
I  could  put  into  a  nook  of  my  vest  pocket. 

I  continue  to  sicken  at  the  thought  of  the  notch  I  cut  in 
the  old  cannon  with  my  hatchet. 

I  seem  to  see  the  people  the  cannon  knocked  down  when 
they  fired  it,  and  I  seek  them  once  again. 

With  kindest  regards  to  all,  I  am, 

Your  cousin, 


STROKES  COMMENCING  WITH  H.  Ill 


Vowels  and  rules  are  applied  the  same  to  these  strokes  as 
to  all  other  consonant  characters.  If  preceded  by  vowels, 
the  first  four  characters  would  be  read  as  sh,  shr.  shl  or  shn- 
shm.    Except  phrasing. 

H..l..hr...'! hi. J wh.  .l...ch..^ j.C g  ( q/.. 

Harry..):' ,....* ......;::: 

hardly  .V.*..  hearty... y.. -r 

heretofore..*s<....  * 

higher. .k;^ * 

who  ar€....h * 

hear......  here......* 

her..V...herd...^...» 

hill..  J. ..heal... J...* 

who'll do..|^ * 

whole..! * 

hull  ..|... . held. |...* 

I  should....! ..* 

we  should.  .1 * 

I  shall.. .(J * , 

you  shall. ..r.. *,.... , 

ash..J...Asher......* ^ 

assure..,??...... * 

assurance..../. * 


112 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Sing 

nickel 

hearse 

heretofore 

sunk 

maker 

hear 

who  are 

sang 

majority 

herd 

who  are  to  be 

swing 

imagine 

hard 

hereafter 

swung 

image 

hurt 

herein 

tswang 

here  to 

heart 

herewith 

English 

hewer 

hearty 

who  are  my 

ankle 

hoard 

heartily 

who  are  made 

knuckle 

Huron 

hired 

who  are  to  have 

single 

heron 

hire 

who  are  not 

JOE  AND  FRANK  ENGLISH'S  MISCHIEF. 

My  cousins,  Joe  and  Frank  English,  were  giving  a 
hearty  "roast"  to  some  hewers  of  images  near*  Huron  eeme* 
tery,  when  they  imagined  they  saw  our  uncle  and  a  majority 
of  the  engravers  rush  out  of  the  yard  toward  them;  so  the 
boys  rushed  up  town  and  jumped  onto  a  hearse  that  was 
standing  in  front  of  an  undertaker's  office. 

As  they  did  so,  Joe  hurt  his  knuckle  on  a  nickel-plated 
rod  and  Frank  swung  a  whip  over  the  hired  horses  and  said, 
"Herewith  do  we  depart,  and  hereafter  you  may  find  this 
hearse  in  the  country." 

They  passed  over  the  hard  road  at  a  higher  speed  than 
usual,  frightened  a  herd  of  horses  at  the  comer  of  18th  and 
Harper  Avenues.  They  hurried  on  and  came  to  a  ferry. 
Joe  said,  "I  heard  a  boat,"  and  Frank  said,  "I  heard  that 
sometime  ago." 

They  left  the  hearse  and  hired  a  canoe  to  row  over  the 
Missouri.  They  were  soon  over  and  thought  themselves 
heroes. 

Frank  said  that  he  heard  a  lass  singing.  They  soon 
saw  her  in  a  swing  where  she  had  swung  and  sung  for  some 
time. 

Joe  went  up  to  her  and  said,  "You  must  be  the  'Queen 
of  Hearts,'  it  does  me  good  to  hear  you  sing  so  heartily." 
Heretofore,  it  was  Frank  who  was  so  bold. 

She  gazed  at  him  and  said,  "What  is  the  matter  with 
your  foot?"  and  he  said,  "I  sprained  my  ankle."  Herein  she 
knew  that  the  boys  knew  who  were  to  be  arrested;  who  are 
to  have  hand-cuffs  and  who  are  not.  You  may  know  who 
are  my  cousins  and  who  are  made  criminals,  but  you  do  not 
know  what  they  did  with  the  heron  they  caught  when  they 
rowed  in  the  canoe. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


113 


Hale 

howl 

who  will  not 

inhale 

held 

we  will  do 

exhale 

hilt 

you  share  it 

hill 

halt 

who  will  be 

heal 

exalt 

you  show  us 

who'll 

Holy 

who  will  have 

hull 

Helen 

you  shun  us 

Hal 

Highland 

who  will  know 

hole 

hall 

who  will  make 

whole 

hollow 

we  showed  you 

I  shall  do 
we  should  see  you 
who  will  see  you 
you  shall  see  us 
who  will  not  be 
we  shall  be 
who  will  have  it 
you  should  not  be 
I  shall  not  be 
who  will  lead  us. 


A  HALLOWE'EN  PARTY  AT   HIGHLAND. 


About  seven  o'clock,  one  Friday  evening,  a  Miss  Helen 
Hall  hallo'ed  to  Hal  Holt,  saying,  "Who  will  lead  us  in  a 
Hallowe'en  party  to-night?"  and  Hal  said,  "I  shall  do  so,  but 
who  will  have  it?" 

"Ella  Hale,  Roy  Hilton,  Ray  Hall,  yourself,  Cora  Hol- 
land, my  self  and  all  others  we  may  be  able  to  get.  I  do  not 
know  who  will  not  be  able  to  go." 

"Well,  I  shall  see  the  boys  right  away  and  we  shall  see 
you  or  we  should  see  you  at  the  corner  of  Sixth  Street  and 
Highland  Avenue  at  eight  o'clock  sharp." 

"Who  will  see  you?  We  should  see  you  at  our  homes. 
And  you  shun  us,"  said  Hal? 

"What  will  people  think?" 

"Who  will  know  it?  You  should  not  be  afraid  of  that. 
Who  will  make  any  objections?" 

"All  right,  we  shall  be  there  and  if  there  is  any  blame 
you  share  it." 

"Of  all  the  lasses  you  know,  who  will  not  be  there?  I 
do  not  know." 

That  evening  as  the  boys  hailed  the  ladies  hurrying  up 
the  hill  they  could  hear  them  exhale  and  inhale  the  cool 
autumn  air.  The  boys  fairly  howled  their  shouts  to  them 
and  exalted  the  ladies  with  praises  for  their  bravery. 

The  whole  party  went  down  the  hill  to  a  hollow  hull, 
where  they  held  their  meeting  to  lay  their  plans.  Then 
through  the  town  they  swept  like  a  cyclone,  overturning 
boxes,  pulling  down  signs,  exhibiting  "Jack-o'-lanterns,"  and 
playing  mischief  in  general.  When  the  police  went  after 
them,  they  fled  through  a  thick  wood,  circled  and  came  back 
to  their  own  homes  and  were  so  quiet  that  no  one  outside  of 
their  party  knew  who  they  were. 


114       BLENDING  CONSONANT  CHARACTERS. 

•  "^  ^  ■    . 

The  ch,  j  or  g  strokes  may  be  written  upward  to  blen^ 
with  the  strokes  commencing  with  k  or  similar  strokes  and 
the  vowels  between  them  may  be  written  at  the  end  of  the 
following  strokes;  as  ch-k-aw  re-cords  "chalk.. r./N(..." - 


Checks cheek....)..*.... 

choke. .. .  !^.rejectrT4».A.  .*.... 
object. ^/\.. scale  (^... .*.... 
subject.X A .  scald  ..C/.  .*.... 

objection... CA» * 

chuckle...?!\ *.... 

chicken .\ *.... 

glaze  .(J?  •  glisten.  Q^..  *. . . . 

Gleason.^^.....; *..,. 

e&\e.(j. gill..^....*.... 

jelly.. C?... glade  .^^ *.... 

pray  .—f:... braid  V**-^..*.... 

«heer .i*uryJs.«,Trt»  .*.... 

scrawl. .Tri:^ *,... 

still  .^ steeiyp.. ....... 

spill.^....spell..g^ •.... 


STROKES  COMMENCING  WITH  N  OR  M.       115 


Vowels  and  rules  are  applied  the  same  to  these  strokes  as 
to  all  other  consonant  characters 


...n/..n/..mm-nn-mn-nm/...;  str.nl/jnU.mbAmp 
^:^m^n //....* 


n8./..ms 

Messrs..  .frr!?joen 

manager,.^. ^ 

»an<«,en,e„,.Z^^  .... 

manufacture. .  /^ . . .  \ .. .  * 

acknowledgement.  T^V^* 

knowledge 

union 

statement 

membery:?..  memory/...* 

nile./T!!'^ mile/ *, 

million  .l^>.<.- -,-J 

lumber.C^ mop./ * 

lump... C/...  stand.  ./^....« 

instance...  (T'. * 

stem. .(°:...  system  .iff * 


../...amount.  7. 
\&Cit../^. 


116 

CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 

Check 

inject 

joke 

maintain 

management 

chalk 

reject 

joking 

manage 

manufacture 

choke 

rejection 

injection 

union 

summons 

checks 

subject 

rejector 

manner 

Minnesota 

checkers 

object 

man 

women 

minuend 

chuckle 

objection 

mum 

announce 

amanuensis 

chickens 

Jake 

numb 

memory 

amendment 

check'm 

jouk 

unknown 

number 

announcement 

GAINING  A  CHECK. 


Jake  Manning,  an  amanuensis  for  a  manufacturing  com- 
pany, which  was  under  the  management  of  a  union,  was  eat- 
ing chicken  at  a  hotel  on  Minnesota  Avenue,  and  overheard 
some  man,  unknown  to  him,  who  sat  at  a  table  near  by,  an- 
nounce that  he  was  intending  to  have  the  manufacturing 
company  managed  in  such  a  manner  that  no  women  could 
work  there. 

Jake  said,  "These  facts  are  so  important  that  I  shall 
have  to  'check  'm  up'  in  my  note  book."  So  he  got  out  his 
note  book,  numbered  the  pages  and  began  to  "chalk  down" 
the  conversation,  as  he  knew  it  was  no  joke,  although  the 
man  jouked  his  head,  chuckled  and  almost  choked  to  make 
people  think  he  was  only  joking. 

Jake  was  soon  numb  to  everything  but  the  conversation, 
but  the  man  was  not  in  the  least  mum  until*  he  saw  the 
silence  that  his  subject  maintained,  when  he  rejected  the 
subject. 

As  soon  as  Jake  was  through  with  his  dinner  he  sat 
by  the  man  and  asked  if  he  had  any  objection  to  his  inter- 
jecting the  subject  he  was  just  speaking  upon. 

The  man  said  I  do  not  see  what  object  you  may  have 
in  injecting  any  thought  into  the  conversation.  I  may  have 
to  reject  it  the  moment  you  speak,  if  it  is  not  agreeable. 

Jake  knew  how  to  win  the  rejector,  and  in  a  minute  Jake 
was  injecting  his  information. 

When  Jake  had  the  information  he  said  to  the  men  that 
he  had  a  date  to  play  checkers. 

He  went  to  the  managers  of  the  factory  and  read  his 
summary  of  the  conversation  and  this  man  was  summoned 
to  answer.  This  checked  the  men  and  won  checks  for 
Jake. 


CLARICS  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


117 


State 

limp 

Milton 

acknowledgment 

statement 

melt 

molten 

'n'll  say  that 

annual 

mail 

melon 

"n'll  be  the 

aniline 

million 

mellow 

an'Il  buy 

knell 

meal 

miUer 

I'm  led' 

nail 

mile 

similar 

I'm  late 

kneel 

mull 

map 

I'm  less 

Nile 

maul 

mope 

we  may  buy  up 

Newall 

I'm  lost 

mop 

an'll  see  that 

annul 

mole 

acknowledge 

Miss  Nellie  Miller, 

lamp 

Dear  Miss  Miller: 

Milton,  Ohio. 

I  am  led  to  acknowledge  receipt  of  your  favor  of  the 
7th  inst.  with  the  annual  statement  of  the  State  Fair  Asso- 
ciation, and'll  say  that  the  Newall  Mills  Hall,  just  one  mile 
from  Nile  City  is  not  a  very  clean  place  to  hold  meetings, 
as  I  found  a  mole  in  the  meal  that  was  to  be  used  in  our  last 
banquet. 

I'm  sure  I'm  lost  to  know,  what  to  do  that  would  help 
Mr.  Mull,  who  keeps  a  store  near  the  mill.  He  was  laid  up 
for  a  while  and  still  limps.  You  know  he  was  the  man  who 
had  charge  of  a  million  pieces  of  mail  that  passed  through  his 
hands  in  one  year.  It  seemed  that  he  kneeled  upon  a  nail 
as  he  was  mauling  a  loose  board  into  jwsition  on  the  sidewalk. 
Yesterday  he  dropped  some  molten  lead  that  he  had  been 
melting  for  bullets,  onto  his  foot. 

I  aim  to  help  him  buy  some  maps,  mops,  nails,  lamps, 
mellow  or  ripe  melons,  aniline,  an'll  see  that  he  acknowledges 
or  signs  an  acknowledgment  to  the  contract  in  such  a  way 
that  he  can  not  annul  it.    "We  may  buy  up  the  whole  store." 

Hoping  you  will  come  home  soon,  I  am, 

Your  friend. 


118 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


I  am  in 
some  one 
something 
union 
and  know 
and  now 
and  not 
went  in 
went  on 
one  may 


one  made 
one  meets 
one  met 
one  might 
one  man 
one  knew 
one  must 
sent  an 
one  note 


one  needs 
I  may  not 
you  may  not 
we  may  not 
I  may  know 
you  may  know 
we  may  know 
I  might  not 
you  might  not 


we  might  not 
I'm  not  to  be 
and  meet 
and  might 
and  made 
and  must 
and  most 
and  mean  to 
we  meant  to  be 


A  VISIT  TO  THE  UNION. 

"Say,  Will  Ross,  we  are  going  to  the  Union  one  night 
this  week.    Will  you  not  go  with  us?" 

"I  am  not  able  to  go.    Wheft  are  you  going?" 

"You  may  not,  whyt  We  mean  to  hear  the  one  man's 
idea,  and  so  we  mean  to  be  there." 

"Oh,  I  know  that;  it'a.  the  one  man  one  meets  whom  no 
one  knows  and  no  one  knew,  but  whom  some  one  must  know 
something  about." 

"Well,  I  am  going  to  the  Union  so  that  I  may  know  and 
you  may  know  or  we  may  know  who  he  is.  You  know  one 
must  be  posted,  for  one  needs  such  information." 

"Now,  suppose  that  I  might  know,  that  you  might  know 
or  that  we  might  know.  I  am  not  to  be  taken  in  that  way. 
I  may  not  know,  you  may  not  know  or  we  may  not  know 
and  be  none  the  worse  off." 

"I  went  in  one  night  without  a  pass,  as  any  one  may; 
one  member  met  me  just  as  I  entered  and  most  cordially 
welcomed  me.  And  now  I  know  that  I  got  one  new  idea,  and 
must  say,  it  did  me  some  good  and  made  a  better  man  of 
me." 

"If  you  will  come  and  meet  us  at  Main  and  Scott  Streets, 
we  will  show  you  the  way.  I  should  have  gone  and  made 
arrangements  for  you.  Now,  we  may  have  to  pay  an  enroll- 
ment fee,  and  might  have  to  stand  up,  but  if  we  pay  the 
fee,  you  can  stand  it  to  stand  up,  can  you  not?" 


STROKES  COMMENCING  WITH  TH  AND  D.     119 


Vowels  and  rules  are  applied  the  same  to  these  strokes  as 
to  all  other  consonant  characters 


Thr-dr..rr>...th./;'r^. 
Dear..<T>..three..<:7*  .*. 
third. .'T?^... thirty. f^*. 

thirteen... <T!yr. * 

drove \.  drive  . .  a  * 

endure endorse^TH.* 

there  .<^.. their  .<!>..  *. 

through.. <r:>o *. 

duel.  ^  "^^  * 
Idle. 

I'd  do  aii.<:r:7:>M....* 
duii...-^:::^^:^ * 

drill... Q.. they 're. /r?3i..* 

they're  to  be  ..^,^ *, 

draw.^r7H..throw..'rj^..  * 
drawn  /rri. .  dower .  C^.  * 
they  are  in  th..<^ * 


d...^<r>> dl-thl.. 


120 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHROTHAND. 


Southern 

there-their 

threat-thread-dread 

you  draw 

cedar 

dear-three 

throat 

you  drew 

cider 

dire-dry 

they  are 

endure 

sadder 

threw-through  they're  to 

indoors 

solder 

dare 

thrown 

endurance 

wider 

throw-door 

drawn 

adder 

weather 

dower 

drown 

address 

I  dare 

dress-dray 

I  threw 

author 

we  dare 

drone-throne 

third -dirt 

they're  in  the 

you  dare 

thrice-dries 

thrust-thirst 

Prof.  Charles  Sears, 

Springfield,  Mo. 
Dear  Friend: 

Replying  to  yours  of  Dec.  20th,  will  say  that  the  school 
is  in  a  flourishing  condition  and  the  new  book  is  nearing 
completion.    Day  by  day  it  is  getting  a  wider  reputation. 

I  dare  say  it  will  be  but  a  short  time  until  the  author 
can  spend  his  winters  among  the  Southern  cedars,  drinking 
cider  and  enjoying  fine  weather  or  outdoor  life  while  we 
poor  creatures  endure  the  Northern  blizzard  and  live  indoors 
on  account  of  our  bad  throats. 

Tonight,  my  whole  sympathy  is  with  Queen  Ameline. 
She  is  truly  a  queen,  to  endure  so  patiently  the  grief  which 
followed  the  assassination  of  her  husband  and  son  but  two 
days  ago.  She,  alone  and  single  handed  at  that,  has  over- 
thrown Franco,  the  dictator,  and  saved  the  smoking  dynasty, 
and  thereby  brought  peace  to  a  sadder  but  better  kingdom. 

Through  her  courage,  self-possession  and  interest,  she 
has  influenced  the  boy  king  to  reject  Franco's  specious  ad- 
vice.   There  will  not  be  a  drone  or  a  puppet  on  the  throne. 

Thrice  was  the  husband  shot,  and  I  dare  say,  had  it  not 
been  for  the  timely  thrusts  of  the  policeman's  drawn  sword 
she  would  not  have  lived  to  address  her  court. 

With  best  wishes  for  your  success,  I  am. 

Very  respectfully. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


121 


I  would  write 

daily 

you  would  add 

I  would  let 

we  would  draw 

addle 

idol-idle 

we  would  lead 

you  would  read 

waddle 

dale-dell 

you  would  lay 

we  would  route 

Ethel 

you  dealt 

we  would  light 

you  would  run 

dealt 

we  dealt 

I  would  lay  the 

we  would  roam 

deal 

I  dulled 

we  would  lease 

I  would  rule 

doll 

you  dulled 

we  would  loan 

we  would  rule 

dial 

we  dulled 

we  would  line  up 

we  would  write 

dial 

I  deal 

you  would  land 

WHAT  WE  WOULD  DO  IF  WE  WERE  MEN. 


I  would  write  for  a  daily,  you  would  read  what  I  write 
and  we  would  draw  the  pay. 

I  would  let  you  use  my  credit,  you  would  run  for  office, 
we  would  rule  the  election  and  I  would  rule  you,  so  that  we 
would  lead  the  ticket.* 

I  would  lay  the  plans,  we  would  lease  an  office  and  we 
would  loan  money. 

We  would  write  to  customers  and  we  would  "land  them" 
every  time.  Then  you  would  add  the  profits  to  our  bank 
account  every  day. 

We  would  roam  all  over  the  country  and  we  would  rout 
every  competitor. 

We  would  "line  up"  our  business  with  the  best  of  them 
and  we  would  light  our  office  with  electric  lights. 

You  know  we  have  no  idols,  or  idle  time.  I  now  deal 
with  the  one  you  dealt  with  last  week  and  we  both  dealt  with 
last  year.  He  now  lives  in  the  dale  or  dell,  as  you  call  it. 
He  is  so  fat  he  can  hardly  waddle. 

Ethel  has  a  doll  that  she  lets  go  with  her  to  see  the 
dial  each  day.  She  says  it  addles  the  doll  to  know  how  the 
dial  can  tell  the  time  of  day. 

I  dulled  our  reaper  again  to-day.  You  know  you  dulled 
the  sickle  and  we  both  dulled  the  mower  when  you  were  here 
last  fall. 


122       STROKES  COMMENCING  WITH  T  OR  D. 


Vowels  and  rules  are  applied  the  same  to  these  strokes  as 
to  all  other  consonant  characters. 
Thetk  stroke  may  also  be  used  fortj,  dj,  tchor  dch 


Tr..vrf...t. 
indication 

interest..^. *. 

attend.. /N»^ *. 

at  last., 
at  least.. 

it  will....^....^.^-^ *. 

track.^^trip.^^^..  *. 
trace.  sJP .  .trace  sS.  * . 
train .  S4?. .  trim  s**?.* 

intrusion  .^v^ *. 

introduce.  S?l^ 

introductions*^ 

dig-Dick. 

tall.S.-<^ tool.S^ 

turn.  .SJ. . .  .term.S-<  .*. 

to  write. .S*;?. *. 

outright.vNi,^ ♦. 

it  takes  .^  — ^  * 
addicted. 


tk-dk-tg-dg. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


123 


Otter 

tray 

trace-tress 

tardy 

trend 

utter 

tire 

tree-tear 

treat 

train 

setter 

tier 

tire-try 

trait 

trim 

suitor 

tar 

tour-true 

trot 

tramp 

wetter 

trice 

I  tried 

trod 

trip 

waiter 

terse 

trousseau 

tried 

troop 

water 

trash 

it  raised 

trout 

tribe 

sweater 

tare 

we  trapped 

traced 

to  ride 

outer 

tower 

to  write 

trust 

tread 

trade 

truer 

you  trade 

outrage 

to  raise 

Mrs.  Clara  Murray, 

Modesta,  Cal. 
Dear  Clara: 

We  are  now  settled  in  our  new  home  and  I  have  time  to 
write  to  you  about  our  vacation  trip,  which  was  a  glorious 
one. 

We  spent  the  greater  part  of  our  time  hunting  otters 
and  fishing  for  trout,  for  which  I  had  prepared  by  adding 
a  corduroy  hunting  suit  to  my  trousseau. 

We  took  a  setter  with  us  that  soon  traced  an  otter  and 
treed  one  of  my  old  suitors,  who  had  tramped  to  the  forest 
and  traced  us  to  our  cosy  nook. 

He  was  glad  to  tear  a  piece  of  thread  from  his  tie  to 
tie  his  kerchief  to  a  twig  to  raise  as  a  truce  from  his  high 
tower.  Twice  he  did  this  before.  Trim,  the  setter,  trusted 
him  to  come  down  and  tread,  trot,  trip,  or  tramp  back  to  the 
city.  He  trod  back.  When  he  arrived,  he  found  his  sweater 
wetter  than  he  had  ever  seen  it  before.  Being  tired,  he  sat 
down  to  rest  and  was  heard  to  say,  "I'm  a  wiser  man,  but  I'll 
bet  she  had  that  dog  trained.  I  have  treid  to  win  her,  but 
it  is  all  utter  folly.  Who  could  trust  such  a  woman?  I  fear 
they  are  all  of  the  same  trend." 

On  our  way  home  we  traded  our  otter  and  trout  to  a 
waiter  at  a  restaurant  for  our  dinner;  she  passed  it  to  us 
on  a  tray  just  before  time  for  our  train. 

Trusting  that  you  may  visit  us  soon,  I  am. 

Your  chum. 


124 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


It  will 

tall 

it  leased 

I  would  get  to  be 

I  tell 

tole 

at  last 

you  would  cause 

you  tell 

towel 

at  least 

I  took  that 

we  tell 

toil 

at  less 

we  take  the 

settle 

tilt 

I  tell  you 

you  took  it 

subtle 

told 

we  told 

I  take  you  to  be 

tell 

at  all 

eat  out 

we  took  that 

tale 

it  let 

attic 

we  talked 

till 

it  will 

land 

I  would  go 

addict 

it  laid 

tool 

you  would  cause  it  to  be 

Mr.  William  Tell, 

Toledo,  Ohio. 
Dear  Mr.  Tell: 

I  tell  you  it  will  pay  us  to  settle  down  and  till  the  soil, 
at  least,  for  one  year. 

At  last,  Robert  Tilden,  who  was  addicted  to  drink,  has 
the  tools,  and  toils  in  the  soil.  He  and  I  had  quite  a  tilt  and 
I  told  him  it  would  eat  out  his  better  life  if  he  did  not  give 
up  drink,  that  I  would  get  to  be  as  bad  as  he  if  I  gave  up 
to  it. 

He  has  a  place  that  he  got  at  less  than  I  thought  he 
could  get  it.  It  leased  for  four  hundred  dollars  last  year 
and  he  got  it  for  two  hundred. 

I  took  that  towel  you  had  in  the  attic  and  tied  it  to  a 
tall  toll-gate  post  so  that  those  on  your  steamer  can  see  it. 
I  am  told  that  the  steamer  will  land  near  the  toll-gate. 

I  know  that  you  would  cause  surprise  if  you  would  go 
into  the  farming  business,  but  if  you  did,  I  would  go  in  with 
you.  We  talked  it  all  over  and  I  know  it  will  be  all  right. 
I  take  it  to  be  agreeable  with  you. 

We  took  that  deed  to  the  court-house  to  have  it  recorded 
on  the  same  day  you  took  the  record  from  the  records  of 
the  exchange  of  land. 

Extending  to  you  the  compliments  of  the  season,  I  am 
as  ever. 

Your  friend. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


125 


Which  to  let 

we  would  let 

take 

Dickens 

which  to  lease 

you  would  go 

tick 

tackle 

which  to  lose 

we  would  cut 

took 

teach 

which  to  lay 

we  had  got 

toque 

touch 

which  to  light 

we  had  good 

taken 

taking 

which  to  lend 

you  had  good 

text 

taxing 

which  to  get 

we  had  gone 

tax 

attacking 

which  to  call 

it   would   cause 

Dick 

ducking 

which  to  lead 

we  had  come 

dock 

ticking 

JOSEPH   DICKENS'S   QUANDARY. 


Dr.  Joseph  Dickens  and  Dick  True  went  out  to  hunt  and 
fish  for  a  few  days  and  these  were  the  queries  that  arose  in 
Joseph's  mind. 

"We  had  gone  to  the  gun-smith's  to  lease  some  guns 
and  fishing  tackle.  There  were  two  guns  almost  alike,  and 
I  did  not  know  which  to  lease  and  which  to  let  Dick  have. 

"When  we  got  to  the  dock,  we  saw  a  wild  duck  and  a 
wild  goose,  ducking  their  heads  in  the  water*  and  I  could 
shoot  but  one,  but  I  did  not  know  which  to  get.  Dick  said, 
'Why  did  you  not  shoot,  you  had  a  good  chance?'  So  I  told 
him  I  did  not  know  which  to  get  or  which  to  lose.  I  knew  we 
would  get  both,  if  we  both  shot,  but  I  did  not  know  which  to 
let  him  shoot. 

"We  saw  some  quails,  and  as  we  had  two  dogs,  a  setter 
and  a  pointer,  I  did  not  know  which  to  call,  but  I  did  know 
it  would  cause  the  quails  to  fly,  if  I  let  both  go.  We  had 
to  lead  one  and  I  did  not  know  which  to  lead. 

"We  met  another  hunter  and  he  said,  'If  you  would  go 
around  a  certain  clump  of  trees  or  if  you  would  cut  through 
them,  you  might  get  the  quails.  Yet,  if  you  will  lend  me  one 
of  your  guns  and  lay  one  of  those  bars  down,  I  think  I  can 
shoot  the  quails,'  but  I  did  not  know  which  to  lend  and  which 
to  lay  down. 

"When  we  got  the  quails,  I  gave  him  two  cigars  and  he 
did  not  know  which  to  light.  He  bade  us  goodby  and  said  we 
would  soon  come  to  a  creek  and  he  would  teach  us  how  to 
use  our  fishing  tackle.  I  let  him  take  mine,  which  was 
wrapped  in  a  piece  of  ticking,  and  as  he  took  or  was  taking 
it,  he  touched  the  point  of  the  hook  with  his  finger,  when  he 
commenced  attacking  me." 

We  shall  not  tax  you  with  this  text. 


126 


STROKES  COMMENCING  WITH  R. 


The  p,  b.  ch,  j,  g,  and  q  alsost  and  sp  will  blend  with  these 
stroke? t...... 

Vowels  and  rules  are  applied  the  same  to  these  strokes  as 
to  all  other  consonant  characters 


Rp-rb.rr:.  .r7^!7"rk-rg-rJ-rch- 
rf-rv.~^*>r..rfr--rvr.TT~.  ^fl--rvl.T>^fJlr. . .». mr . 

Ripe. -Tr?... robe.,  nr *... 

reporter... TT^ *... 

respectfully.. !7^. *... 

work .  .0. ■■■...-.  urge.  ?r. 

energy. ..*v? f. *.... 

cont-ract..*T -j *... 


ratchet..." ^. ..*. 

world. 'X'.. early. >rrf..  * 
ram..«<rTTr!...  ran-*<<r..  *. 
arrive. 


roof.....^T^.  rove, 
revelation . 
revolution, 
revolver 
north. 

mortal ..( .^^^*. 

nearly./TT.  .merely..' * 

March. J.... market.!, *  ,..^^ 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


127 


Ripe 

reap 

wrap 

rob 

Europe 

warp 

wrapper 

syrup 


reaper 
repeat 
rope-robe 
rip-rib 
reporter 
your  pass 
your  pay 
our  pay 


our  pass 
our  best 
your  best 
repetition 
our  boys 
your  boys 
our  boast 
your  piece 


your  papa 
your   pet 
our  bid 
your  bid 
our  bat 
our  boast 
European 
your  pen 


our  pains 
your  patent 
your  patience 
our  paint 
our  bond 
your  paints 
republican 
reputation 


A  EUROPEAN'S   BOND. 


It  has  been  repeatedly  reported  by  a  reporter  of  some 
reputation,  that  an  enwrapped  European  met  a  reputed  Re- 
publican and  said,  "You  have  our  bond  in  your  pants  pocket 
in  which  we  agree  to  reap  your  ripe  oats  and  wheat  (you  to 
furnish  the  reaper)  for  fifty  gal.  of  syrup,  ninety  feet  of 
rope,  six  yards  of  warp  with  which  to  make  a  robe  that 
would  not  rip,  four  pork  ribs  and  a  certain  wrapper  for  our 
pay. 

"We  did  our  best  to  get  our  pass  on  the  steamer  from 
Europe  (as  they  would  not  accept  your  pass)  in  such  time 
that  we  might  be  reaping  your  wheat  and  oats  as  soon  as 
they  were  ripe. 

"It  has  been  our  boast  that  our  boys  and  your  boys  will 
be  your  friends.  One  of  our  boys  said  to  one  of  your  boys, 
*I  am  glad  that  your  papa  accepted  our  bid,  for  now  we  can 
help  you  with  your  patent  and  you  can  use  our  paint  to 
paint  it.'" 

The  Republican  said,  "Your  boys  may  be  your  pets  but 
not  mine,  and  your  patience  will  be  tried  before  you  get  your 
pay.  For  the  repetition  of  the  old  quarrel  over  'our  bats' 
will  arise  again. 

"One  of  our  boys  said  that  the  glass  that  was  broken 
by  your  boy's  piece  of  bat  was  our  panes,  and  was  not  paid 
for." 


128 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Honor 

I'm  ready 

mayor 

former 

winner 

I'm  raised 

mere 

comer 

humor 

more  to  be 

more 

farmer 

summer 

more  to  see 

mar 

narrow 

America 

more  to  say 

admire 

newer 

American 

more  to  us 

merit 

an  hour 

hammer 

more  to  you 

Merl 

North 

Homer* 

and  are  at 

market 

and  are  to 

and  are  good 

marking 

and  are  not 

I'm  right 

on  or  about 

you  and  I  are  to  be 

mirth 

Mr.  Homer  Meyers, 

North  Market,  Chicago. 
Dear  Mr.  Meyers: 

I  am  ready  to  announce  that  I  am  right  when  I  say 
that  Merl  North  merits  the  honor  of  being  the  winner  of  the 
American  cup  at  the  "Hay-market  Contest."  The  mere  fact 
that  he  was  a  newer  contestant  and  was  at  tho  mercy  of  the 
mirth  and  humor  of  the  summer  visitors  and  formerly  a 
farmer  boy,  should  not  bar  him. 

For  him  to  come  out  with  such  a  narrov/  margin  be- 
tween him  and  the  best  contestant  deserves  the  admiration 
of  the  mayor.  It  should  not  mar  his  dignity  to  ackonwledge 
it. 

You  know  you  and  I  are  to  be  at  the  next  contest  on  or 
about  Aug.  5th  and  are  to  act  as  judges,  more  to  see  fair 
play  (which  means  more  to  you  and  more  to  us)  than  to 
wield  the  hammer  or  to  do  the  marking. 

An  hour  or  two  later,  I  am  to  meet  James  at  the  comer 
of  Reed  and  J.  Streets,  more  to  say  what  I  think  of  the  con- 
test than  to  go  with  him. 

Homer  Good  and  Merl  are  to  be  at  that  contest  and  are 
not  to  be  outdone  by  such  trickery.* 

With  compliments  for  your  success,  I'm, 
Very  truly, 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


129 


Work    rug 
urge      energy 
surge    wreck-wretch 
rogue    rick-rig 
urgent  rake-rage 
urchin  reckon 
wreck    region 
rock      regent 
rook      record 


recorder 
regard 
regular 
rack-rag 
cont-ract 
regulation 
you  'rl  could 
you're  good 
our  goods 


your  goods 
our  cause 
your  cause 
our  gas 
your  guest 
your  justice 
your  coat 
your  guest 
your  cast 


our  cost 
ycur  coast 
your  kin 
you're  kind 
our  kind 
your  count 
your  call 
our  care 


Mr.   George  Rogers, 

Rogerville,  Virginia. 

Dear  Mr.  Rogers: 

One  day  our  kind  employer,  at  the  close  of  our  work 
urgently  requested  that  we  visit  the  region  of  rocks  along 
your  coast,  so  we  put  a  hay-rack  on  our  rig,  took  a  rake  and 
a  rug  and  set  out  for  the  coast. 

We  saw  your  cows  around  a  rick  of  hay  and  at  the  same 
time  saw  the  regent  and  made  a  contract  with  him  in  regard 
to  regular  visits  to  this  region.  The  county  recorder  wrote 
out  the  regulations  at  our  cost.  I  believe  he  is  some  of  your 
kin.    He  looks  like  you. 

As  we  unloaded  our  goods,  a  wretched  man  appeared 
and  asked  our  cause  for  coming.  He  was  a  crook  and  dressed 
in  rags.  One  of  us  shot  a  rook  and  he  flew  into  a  rage,  and 
said,  "I'll  wreck  your  goods  and  steal  your  coats."  I  said, 
"You  are  keen  to  drive  us  away,  aren't  you?  You'd  better 
see  that  you  are  good  or  you  will  'miss  your  count.'  "  You 
know  you  or  I  could  have  him  brought  before  your  Justice  of 
the  Peace. 

The  little  urchin  (your  guest)  was  in  our  care.  He 
watched  the  surges  of  the  water  and  when  we  urged  him  to 
come,  the  little  rogue  said  ,"I  had  a  notion  not  to  come  at 
your  call." 

I  am  as  ever. 

Your  friend. 


180 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Earl 

relent 

real-estate 

which  are  lost 

world 

realize 

realty-rill 

we  are  late 

oral 

re-lend 

you  are  late 

you're  liberal 

cereal 

reality 

your  letter 

our  liberty 

sorrel 

railroad 

we  are  lost 

you  are  lower 

surly 

railway 

our  last 

our  light 

rule 

railing 

your  least 

your  list 

roll 

roller 

our  line 

your  little 

rail 

relation 

which  rule 

which  are  least 

royal 

our  lot 

your  lease 

Mrs.  Carrie  Early, 

Albany,  New  York. 
Dear  Madam: 

In  answer  to  your  letter  of  the  15th  inst.  in  reference 
to  our  letter  of  the  4th  inst.,  let  me  say  that  I  did  not  realize, 
while  in  conversation  with  him,  that  the  Earl  of  Warwick 
was  in  any  way  interested  in  real-estate.  I  noticed  that  he 
seemed  to  be  conversant  with  realty  in  general,  but  I  am 
lost  to  know  how  I  could  have  interested  him  in  your  list  of 
property. 

His  conversation  seemed  to  bear  more  on  his  royal 
blood,  his  relation  to  the  rulers,  our  railroad  systems,  our 
liberty  as  a  people,  our  last  president,  our  line  of  communi- 
cation* with  the  orient  and  the  nature  of  the  rails  along* 
the  railway. 

You  are  late  in  gettir?  out  your  lease  on  our  lots,  but 
as  you  are  liberal  in  your  offer  to  roll  the  lots  with  a  heavy 
iron  roller,  although  yoT  are  lower  than  others*  we  shall 
let  it  pass  this  time,  but  the  other  papers,  which  are  lost, 
and  which  are  least  in  importance,  as  you  say,  we  must  have. 

If  you  relent  from  your  position  now,  although  we  are 
late,  we  can  relend  the  money.  It  does  not  pay  to  be  surly, 
and  an  oral  contract  anywhere  in  this  world  is  not  as  bind- 
ing as  a  written  one. 

Did  you  not  realize  that  all  kinds  of  cereals  can  be 
raised  along*  the  rill  that  flows  through  your  farm? 

Hoping  you  will  be  able  to  find  a  good  customer  for  your 
real-estate,  I  am, 

Yours  truly, 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


131 


Surf 

serve 

roof 

rough 

raft 

rave 

rift 

reef 

rove 

swerve 


service 
surface 
arrive 
arrival 
refit 
refuse 
your  voice 
your  vase 
our  vise 
your  vest 


your  face 
your  fist 
our  fight 
your  vote 
our  fence 
our  famine 
we  are  vastly 
we  are  fit 
we  are  fed 


revisit 

review 

revive 

we  are  of  the 

you  are  of  the 

ravine 

refine 

refund 

our  vote 


REFORM  AT  TAMPA  BAY. 


Rev.  Haight,  upon  his  arrival  at  Tampa,  Florida,  of- 
fered his  services  to  put  down  the  liquor  traffic  and  said,  "I 
should  be  pleased  to  see  in  your  fist  or  in  your  vest  pocket, 
your  vote  to  put  down  the  cause  for  all  of  our  famine  and 
refit  your  city  for  good  citizens.  The  success  of  our  fight 
will  depend  upon  your  vote. 

"We  are  of  the  refined  class  and  you  are  of  the  refined 
class,  if  so  be  that  you  vote  with  us. 

"If  you  refuse,  your  voice  will  weigh  with  the  roughs 
and  your  vice  will  be  our  vice. 

"We  are  fit,  we  are  vastly  more  fit  to  revise  the  present 
law,  than  we  will  be  able  to  revive  the  old  revision  later  on. 

"As  I  rove  over  the  reef  and  see  the  surf  swerve  the 
pebbles  on  the  beach  and  go  rushing  up  the  ravine,  so,  can  I 
see  rifts  in  the  roofs  of  the  houses  exposing  the  rafters,  and 
fences  down  around  the  homes  of  those  by  whom  we  are  fed. 

"We,  ourselves,  rave  as  those  who  serve  the  cup  and 
cannot  refund  our  manhood  nor  revisit  the  pleasant  places 
of  our  youth." 


132 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


You  are  for  it 
we  are  for  it 
you  are  free  to 
we  are  free  to 
we  are  fresh 
we  are  friends 
which  are  for  the 
which  are  for  that 
which  are  for  those 
which  are  for  this 
which  are  for  a 


your  freight 
your  fruit 
our  first 
our  freight 
your  freight 
our  friend 
your  frame 
we  are  from 
you're  from 
your  friend 
your  phrase 


refer  to 

referring  to 

we  refer  to 

revert 

reverse 

refrain 

river 

reverend 

reverence 

our  phrase 

which  are  for  these 


Senator  T.  H.  Thompson, 
Topeka,  Kansas. 
Dear  Mr.  Thompson: 

As  I  refer  to  your  bill  for  the  regulation  of  freight,  I 
realize  that  we  are  for  it  as  much  as  you  are  for  it  and  in 
trying  to  interest  others  in  it  you  are  free  to  quote  us  as 
we  are  free  to  quote  you. 

We  are  friends  and  we  realize  that  our  freight  and  your 
freight  is  too  high. 

You  may  say  we  are  fresh,  when  we  refer  to  your  phrase 
in  your  speech,  "Our  friends  are  your  friends,"  and  say  it  is 
an  error.  But  you  know  that  in  another  part  of  your  speech 
you  refer  to  their  friends  as  not  in  harmony  with  yours. 

In  our  first  letter  to  you,  we  refrained  from  speaking  of 
this,  and  only  revert  to  it,  with  all  due  reverence  to  you,  that 
you  may  refute  Rev.  Keever's  argument.  You  know  you 
seem  to  revere  his  name. 

We  do  not  worry,  as  to  which  are  for  this  party  or  which 
are  for  that  party,  but  we  would  like  to  know  as  to  which 
are  for  the  bill  and  which  are  for  a  better  freight  rate — 
which  are  for  those  principles  that  tend  to  bring  about  a 
better  condition  of  affairs, 

I  can  imagine  that  I  see  your  frowns  and  your  frame 
shake  in  your  fright  over  the  passage  of  the  "River  and  Har- 
bor Bill." 

Hoping  to  help  gather  your  fruit  and  our  fruit  from 
the  passage  of  this  bill,  I  am. 

Fraternally  yours, 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


133 


Servile 

our  flat 

revel 

ravel 

raffle 

riffle 

rifle 

ruffle 

reveal 


revolution 
revelation 
servilance 
your  field 
our  field 
your  volt 
your  fault 
our  file 
your  file 


we  are  flat 
we  are  flush 
which  are  false 
we  are  for  all 
you  are  felt 
which  are  false 
which  are  full 
which  are  felt 


which  are  fallen      revile 


which  are  flat 
our  fleet 
our  fleece 
your  fleece 
your  flame 
revolutionize 
your  fuel 
which  refer  to 


Messrs.  Servilance,  Raffle  &  Co. 
Dear  Sirs: 

Your  favor  requesting  us  not  to  revolutionize  your  plans 
for  the  sale  of  your  fuel  is  on  our  file.  It  was  your  fault. 
Had  you  given  us  a  revelation  of  your  plans  you  would  have 
had  no  occasion  to  revile  us.  We  are,  of  all  your  agents,  the 
least  desirous  of  revealing  or  bringing  about  a  revolution  in 
regard  to  the  sale  of  your  fuel. 

You  are  false  to  your  trust  if  you  attempt  to  rifle  our 
fields  of  coal-oil  of  which  you  know  we  are  flush.  We  know 
your  fields  of  coal  are  full,  yet,  they  will  be  exhausted  within 
a  few  years.  It  is  not  your  fault  nor  our  fault,  that  our 
fleet  was  burned.  It  was  not  your  flame  but  our  flame  that 
consumed  all  of  our  fleece,  and  your  fuel  that  was  on  board 
the  ships. 

You  are  felt  to  be  good  business  men,  hence  we  ask  you 
to  help  us  unravel  this  mystery.  We  are  flat  without  your 
help,  and  therefore,  make  your  our  flat  proposition  to  become 
partners  (which  is  flat). 

We  repose  a  trust  in  you  to  which  you  are  false  if  you 
do  not  aid  us  in  this  matter. 

Our  propositions  which  are  felt  to  be  just,  are  due  to 
the  riffle  which  we  are  felt  to  have  created  in  the  business 
world. 

Sell  your  fleece  and  your  fleet  and  join  us  in  a  fight 
against  electricity  becoming  the  coming  fuel.  I  think  all 
of  your  volts  with  our  volts  will  shock  them. 

In  our  request,  we  are  not  servile  to  any  one,  but  hope 
you  will  join  with  us  in  this  enetrprise. 

Yours  very  truly. 


134        BLENDING  CONSONANT  CHARACTERS. 


Any  one  of  the  r  strokes  can  be  blended  with  the  strokes 
commencing  with  p  orb,  also  with  the  ch,  j,  g,  and  q  strokes. 
Vowels  and  rules  are  applied  the  same  to  these  combinations 
as  to  all  other  consonant  characters 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


135 


Upper 

praise 

power 

prunes 

supper 

prize 

Pierce 

prove 

sipper 

prose 

parse 

priest 

sapper 

appear 

purse 

pearl 

weeper 

pier 

part 

peril 

wiper 

par 

pard 

prim 

sweeper 

poor 

port 

print 

prefer 

pur 

prate 

parade 

proverb 

pray 

prod 

prime 

press 

pry 

pride 

prance 

prudence 

preparation 

parallel 

professor 

pare-pear 

privilege 

pore-pour 

prevalence 

practice 

pressed 


Miss  Pearl  Parson, 

Providence,  R.  I. 


Dear  Pearl: 

It  was  a  privilege  to  spend  the  latter  part  of  the  season 
with  Prof.  Priest  and  Prudence,  his  daughter.  In  the  prime 
of  my  stay  we  attended  a  prize  party. 

We  were  near  the  upper  tier,  when  Prudence  ran  across 
a  poor  street-sweeper  and  his  partner,  who  were  selling 
pressed  prunes  and  pears.  Prudence  opened  her  purse  and 
purchased  some  pears.  They  were  below  par,  but  Prudence 
paid  more  than  he  asked  and  he,  in  his  pride,  pressed  her  to 
take  it  back,  when  she  said,  "I  prefer  you  to  keep  it,  pray  do 
not  prate  about  it."  She  quoted  the  proverb,  "Waste  not, 
want  not."    He  in  turn  praised  her. 

Down  at  the  port,  chaos  appeared  to  have  prevalence. 
Such  sounds  as  pierced  our  ears!  Two  foreigners  were  hav- 
ing trouble.  A  policeman  tried  to  pry  into  the  affair,  but  got 
himself  into  peril,  as  they  proved  too  much  for  him.  He  had 
not  power  to  prevent  the  trouble.  The  next  morning  we  saw 
a  parallel  account  of  the  affair  in  print. 

Prudence  is  a  "prep"  this  year.  She  went  to  the  hall 
each  morning  for  practice. 

She  is  a  prim  little  maid.  The  Professor  is  rather  prosy 
and  "pores"  over  his  books. 

We  took  supper  out  each  evening  and  I  had  a  "lovely" 
time. 

With  love  to  all,  I  am, 

Your  sister. 


136 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Sober 

bower 

abroad 

Weber 

brow 

board 

bear 

burst 

breeze 

bray 

breast 

bright 

brier 

brace 

bride 

bier 

braid 

bruise 

bar 

buyer 

brute 

Boer 

breed 

brass 

bare 

brood 

brought 

bore 

broad 

brush 

barrel 

brown 

burlap 

brick 

brawl 

brigadier 

broil 

bridge 

brain 

brake 

brim 

brook 

brine 

broke 

broom 

brogue 

bran 

broach 

brawn 

BRIGADIER  WEBER  AND  THE  BOER  WAR. 


It  was  a  bright  day  during  the  Boer  war  when  a  breeze 
blew  off  the  sea  and  brought  sweet  scents  to  the  bower  where- 
in sat  Brigadier  Weber;  a  sober  frown  brooded  on  his  broad 
brow.  He  was  thinking  of  the  bride  he  had  left  by  the  little 
brook,  when  he  got  on  board  the  ship  to  go  abroad.  A  sound 
burst  upon  his  ears.  The  breeze  bore  it  from  a  brown  brick 
building  by  the  bridge. 

Weber  arose,  braced  himself  and  brushed  with  a  whisk 
broom  the  bran  from  the  braid  he  had  been  making,  and  the 
sight  he  saw  caused  his  brain  to  broil,  as  it  were.  It  was  a 
brawl  between  two  of  his  men.  One  was  trying  to  break  a 
brass  rod  over  the  other's  head.  Weber  with  bare  head 
rushed  to  them.  "Brutes,"  he  said,  "why  breed  such  envy 
in  your  breasts,  what  brought  this  about?" 

He  placed  the  bruised  man  on  a  burlap  and  bore  him 
to  the  brink  of  a  brook,  filled  his  hat  to  the  brim  with  water 
and  dressed  the  bruises  of  his  brawny  brave. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


137 


churn 

gruel 

grind 

grief 

charm 

growl 

grip 

grieve 

church 

grain 

grab 

grave 

chirp 

grin 

grub 

gravy 

cheer  up 

green 

grope 

gruff 

germ 

groom 

group 

graft 

adjure 

grand 

grog 

grove 

jerk 

grown 

grudge 

graver 

girl 

grant 

Gregg 

gravel 

grill 

ground 

Greek 

grovel 

grit 

grace 

great 

Graham 

Brief 

breve 

brave 

burn 

etcher 

chair 

chore 

charge 

cheer 

churlish 

Charles 


THE  GREEK  AND  THE  GROOM. 

Charles  Gregg,  an  etcher,  was  at  work  in  his  studio 
chair.  He  was  preparing  an  etching  ground,  the  subject 
of  which  was  to  be  "a  church  in  a  grove  of  evergreens;" 
near  by  was  to  be  a  boy  grinding  grain  on  the  lid  of  an  old 
chum  as  a  grovel  worm  lay  at  his  feet  in  the  gravel. 

Just  then  his  Greek  chore  boy  looked  in  with  a  grin  and 
bade  him  get  ready  for  the  great  grand  day  they  were  to 
have  on  the  "green."  Come  said  the  gruff  driver  in  a  churl- 
ish voice  as  he  gritted  his  teeth  and  jerked  his  horses'  reins. 
Charles  grabbed  his  grip  and  "grub  box"  and  was  off.  The 
Greek  had  grog,  gruel  and  a  grill  of  gravy  for  his  luncheon. 

The  etcher's  groom  and  the  Greek  had  a  grudge  against 
each  other.  It  seemed  that  the  grog  had  awakened  an  evil 
germ  in  the  mind  of  the  Greek  and  they  had  grown  angry 
with  each  other.  In  this  instance  a  little  girl  said,  "It  is  not 
brave  to  grieve  each  other  in  this  way."  They  saw  grace  and 
beauty  in  the  face  of  the  girl  as  she  spoke,  and  their  faces 
grew  graver.  "Cheer  up,  little  girl,"  they  said,  "you  have 
charmed  away  the  grudge  and  we  grant  each  other's  par- 
don." Just  then,  a  bright  red  bird  sang  or  chirped,  "Cheer 
up,  cheer  up,"  which  it  kept  up  during  their  brief  stay. 


138 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Jeer 

jar 

jury 

jower 

wager 

jarred 

auger 

I  grieve  to  see  you 

progress 

ingrate 

we  grew 

I  grant 

we  charm 

I  grieve 


we  grant 

I  charge  you  to  be 

grouse 

sugar 

grade 

Greece 

question 

quire 

enquire 

greed 

gear 

gore 

gourd 

queer 


query 

greed 

grass 

chirp 

we  cheer  you  up 

gar 

guard 

girth 

quart 

grit 

grew 

quirk 

gray 


OUR  TRIP  THROUGH  GREECE. 


One  day,  while  traveling  through  Greece,  being  fatigued 
with  our  "sight  seeing,"  we  came  upon  a  beautiful  spot  cov- 
ered with  grass  and  shade-trees. 

Seeing  benches  scattered  here  and  there  over  the  lawn, 
we  decided  to  sit  on  one  of  them  and  rest. 

We  saw,  a  short  distance  away,  a  beautiful  building,  and 
being  anxious  to  learn  of  all  of  the  places  of  interest,  decided 
to  enquire  of  a  gentleman  who  was  passing  on  his  way  to  the 
building  as  to  what  building  it  was.  In  reply  to  our  enquiry, 
he  told  us  it  was  the  court-house  and  said,  "I  grieve  to  see 
the  criminal  in  this  notorious  murder  trial  that  is  now  in 
progress  within." 

We  went  into  court  with  the  intention  of  staying  but  a 
short  time,  but,  as  the  witness  was  to  be  put  on  the  stand 
every  one  grew  excited  as  they  saw  the  haggard  air  of  the 
prisoner.     They  jeered  as  he  took  his  seat. 

The  lawyer  put  question  after  question  to  him,  but  he 
was  on  his  guard  and  would  not  answer  until  ordered  by  the 
judge.  The  lawyer  could  not  catch  him  either  in  direct  or 
cross-examination. 

The  judge  charged  the  jury  and  they  withdrew,  so  we 
stayed  a  little  longer  than  we  intended,  to  see  what  verdict 
the  jury  would  bring  in.  There  were  several  wagers  "put" 
upon  the  verdict. 

The  jury  soon  returned  with  the  verdict  of  murder  in 
the  second  degree.  This  cheered  the  prisoner  and  a  queer 
look  passed  over  his  face.  It  was  bad  enough,  but  he  was  not 
an  ingrate  and  showed  his  grit,  by  bearing  up  with  the  sen- 
tence, when  they  led  him  back  to  the  gray  stone  prison. 

This  sentence  jarred  on  the  nerves  of  many  as  they  ex- 
pected him  to  be  granted  a  release. 


CLARK'S 

TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 

Shuttle 

scarlet 

frail 

heartily 

trials 

scroll 

scowl 

fickle 

hurl 

trolley 

scrawl 

snail 

level 

cruel 

trill 

scale 

smell 

laurel 

crawl 

trowel 

skill 

smile 

legal 

corral 

thrill 

school 

small 

local 

cradle 

thrall 

scull 

smolder 

ripple 

coral 

drill 

scald 

smelter 

rabble 

curl 

drawl 

scold 

scuttle 

regal 

carol 

droll 

skillet 

frill 

herald 

trial 

139 


Dear  Carol : 

I  am  sending  you  a  scroll  taken  from  a  local  paper.  It 
will  tell  you  of  a  trial  which  will  interest  you,  as  it  concerns 
our  friend,  Mr.  D.  Scale  and  his  little  son  J. 

He  and  some  friends,  while  returning  from  Europe, 
were  watching  the  skill  of  a  weaver  at  his  shuttle,  when  a 
herald  came  to  hurl  the  intelligence,  "The  ship  is  scuttled." 
This  sent  a  thrill  of  horror  through  the  crowd. 

It  seemed  that  the  captain  agreed,  with  some  parties  who 
wished  to  secure  certain  legal  papers,  that  he  would,  for  a 
certain  sum,  allow  them  to  scuttle  the  ship. 

The  people  were  secured  on  an  island  in  the  tropic  zone 
in  a  large  scull  boat.  The  heat  was  intense  as  they  were 
near  a  smelter  and  the  sweltering  sun  shone  directly  upon 
them. 

The  ship  caught  fire  as  it  sunk  and  all  they  could  do  was 
to  watch  it  smolder. 

The  rabble  discovered  the  cruel,  fickle  deed  of  the  droll 
captain.  His  scrawl  was  heartily  scrolled.  All  that  was 
saved  was  a  trolley,  a  towel  and  a  skillet  (this  may  cause  you 
to  smile). 

Little  J.  was  cradled  in  the  scull  and  he  watched  the 
ripple  and  felt  the  thrill  of  the  water  as  it  seemed  to  trill 
its  triumph,  and  washed  some  snail  shells  and  scarlet  coral 
high  upon  the  beach.  He  crawled  out  of  his  crib  and  put  his 
frail  little  hands  into  the  water  to  get  a  "regal  laurel"  that 
he  might  smell  it.  When  they  found  him  his  face  looked  as 
if  it  were  scalded  and  his  frills  and  curls  were  wet. 

From  your  old  schoolmate, 


140 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Pi-ayer 

backer 

figure 

liquor 

clear 

prior 
>riar 

balker 

faker 

locker 

Clark 

fai'ther 

factor 

lucre 

larger 

picker 

further 

Victor 

lacquer 

clatter 

pucker 

fairer 

filter 

ledger 

shipper 

packer 

freer 

falter 

record 

shopper 

poker 

fryer 

flitter 

wrecker 

Tyler 

baker 

flare 

flutter 

worker 

taller 

bicker 

flyer 

flatter 

regard 

toiler 

Booker 

floor 

floater 

cryer 

tiger 

Prior  to  the  prayers  of  Booker  T.  Washington  for  Victor 
Clark,  he  was  regarded  as  ^  floater  about  a  poker  club  of 
berry  pickers,  packers,  bakers  and  shippers  at  a  certain  fac- 
tory, who  used  to  play  poker  on  the  floor  of  the  factory  al- 
most every  night. 

Victor  with  his  backer,  Clyde  Tyler,  who  was  regarded 
as  the  wrecker  of  the  New  York  Flyer  and  some  taller  but 
not  any  larger  young  man  than  Victor,  kept  a  record  of  all 
of  the  games  in  their  ledger.  Further  than  that  they  took  no 
part  in  the  game  save  to  bicker  with  each  other  over  the 
filthy  lucre  spent  by  the  freer  "lookers  on,"  for  the  liquor 
which  Mr.  Tyler  sold. 

One  night,  as  Victor  was  passing  through  some  briars 
with  a  lantern  in  his  hand,  he  heard  the  clatter  of  horses' 
hoofs,  and  by  the  flicker  or  flare  of  his  lantern,  he  saw  a  fig- 
ure of  one  of  the  toilers  in  the  berry  patch.  Although  not 
clear,  its  features  seemed  almost  as  savage  as  a  tiger.  His 
steps  faltered  and  his  heart  began  to  flutter.  He  stubbed  his 
toe  and  fell  flatter  than  the  baker's  flitters.  His  face  began 
to  pucker  and  you  would  have  thought  by  the  sound  that  he 
was  a  town  cryer,  until  farther  on  he  met  his  sister,  who  was 
a  "shopper"  and  also  a  worker  in  the  berry  patch.  She  was 
a  Christian  and  he  thought  she  looked  fairer  than  she  had 
ever  looked  before.  This  proved  to  be  a  factor  in  his  con- 
version and  the  liquor  of  the  faker  ceased  to  be  a  balker  to 
his  better  career. 

He  afterwards  painted  the  lockers  near  the  factory's 
filters  and  used  the  best  of  lacquer. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


141 


Prep 

croop 

troupe 

prop 

carp 

trap 

probe 

curb 

drape 

flop 

clip 

drip 

flap 

clap 

drop 

look  up 

club 

droop 

lock  up 

make  up 

drab 

crop 

trip 

throb 

crab 

tripped 

take  up 

creep 

troop 

if  you  are  to  be 
if  you  are  to  have 
if  we  are  to  be 
if  they  are  to  be 
if  they  are  to  have 
if  we  are  to  have  it 
if  our 

say  if  you  are  to  hav.j 
we  have  your 
you  have  our 


Mr.  Edward  Cooper, 

Corporate  Mills,  North  Carolina. 
Dear  Edward: 

If  you  are  to  be  one  of  the  troupe  in  "Hamlet's  Ghost" 
and  if  you  are  to  have  your  own  "make  up,"  or  if  they  are 
to  have  your  "make  up,"  I  wish  you  would  let  me  know. 

If  we  are  to  have  it,  and  if  we  are  to  be  in  the  play  I 
should  like  to  know. 

We  have  your  old  "make  up"  and  we  would  like  to  "look 
up"  the  best  designs  and  take  up  this  subject  with  you  again. 

You  have  our  drab  flaps  to  the  crape  we  draped  over  our 
shoulders  locked  up  in  your  old  trunk.  We  would  like  to 
clip  the  crepon  from  it  before  we  make  the  trip.  We  do  not 
like  to  have  those  flaps  flopping  in  our  faces. 

Now  if  you  will  drop  us  a  line  and  say  if  we  are  to 
have  your  old  "make  up,"  we  shall  not  have  to  probe  the  pro- 
prietor to  know  this. 

While  at  the  club  last  night,  we  heard  that  a  troop  of 
soldiers  were  to  lay  a  trap  for  us,  and  the  news  made  my 
blood  creep  and  throb.  You  know  some  of  the  boys  "shoot 
craps"  on  the  old  curbing.  Well,  one  of  the  soldiers  "dropped 
in"  upon  them  and  you  ought  to  see  their  feathers  droop. 
They  do  not  "carp"  about  their  game  so  much  now. 

Hoping  to  see  you  soon,  I  am. 

Very  truly. 


142 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Incarnate 

inclose 

include 

incor-rupt 

incum-bent 

increase 

incrust 

index 

infer-ence 


incurable 

incon-siderate 

incon-vertible 

in-cog-itant 

in-cog-nito 

incred-ible 

incom-plete 

incom-plex 

incon-ceivable 


inculpable 

indi-fferent 

indig-nant 

indi-rect 

indis-creet 

indol-ent 

indorse 

induct-ive 

indi-cation 


indus-trial 

ineffective 

in-elegant 

in-eligible 

in-eloquent 

in-equality 

in-evi  table 

infallible 

infection 


PRINCE  IMMANUEL. 


It  may  seem  almost  inconceivable  as  to  how  the  Prince 
Immanuel  could  include  within  the  incrust  of  his  camate  be- 
ing, an  incorruptible,  incarnate,  infallible  being. 

This  apparent  incognito  seemed  incredible  and  indiscreet 
to  the  indifferent,  incogitant,  or  inconsiderable  and  indignant 
ruler  of  the  Jews  and  his  cohorts. 

But  by  his  curing  the  incurable,  making  powerful  the  in- 
elegant ineffective,  he  inculcated  his  inenviable  truth  and  lay 
it  incumbent  upon  the  hearts  of  the  inconvertible. 

Although  the  inference  of  some  was  that  his  work  was 
incomplete,  it  was  so  incomplex  that  even  the  indolent  in- 
dorsed it  and  followed  industrial  pursuits.  So  inductive  was 
his  teaching  that  its  infections  inflamed  even  the  indifferent, 
and  now  we  see  indications  of  it  indexed  on  marble  walls 
and  engraven  upon  tables  of  stone. 

His  influence  has  so  increased,  that  it  has  been  felt, 
directly  or  indirectly,  throughout  the  whole  world. 

You  will  find  enclosed,  in  this  discourse,  all  of  the  above 
words. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


143 


Inflict 

inharmonious 

inspect 

insurg-ent 

inkl-ing 

insup-pressive 

inspire 

insurrection 

inner 

inter-con-vert 

instigate 

influence 

intact 

inscription 

instinct 

integ-rity 

informal 

intemp-erate 

inst-ruct 

intellect 

inform 

instru-ment 

inquire 

intel-lig-ent 

ingress 

enshrine 

insular 

interdict 

institute 

ingratitude 

insulate 

inscribe 

inherit 

insurance 

insure 

insecure 

injure 

insolvent 

enshrine 

THE  FALSE  IMPRESSION. 


In  an  informal  way,  a  Russian  official  got  an  inkling  that 
a  certain  instructor  was  an  insurgent,  and  had  inspired  others 
to  instigate  an  insurrection. 

As  soon  as  he  was  informed  of  this  inharmonious  influ- 
ence, he  sent  an  intelligent,  although  intemperate,  inspector  to 
inquire  into  the  integrity  and  about  the  intellect  and  ingrati- 
tude of  this  instructor. 

Upon  his  inspection,  he  saw  enshrined  an  inscription  in- 
scribed in  an  insular  instrument  that  the  intsructor  had  in- 
sulated to  insure  its  safety. 

With  a  desire  to  interdict  its  operations,  he  got  an  agent 
for  an  insolvent  insurance  company  to  pronounce  the  instru- 
ment insecure,  and  to  smash  it  if  he  could;  but  the  professor, 
desiring  to  keep  it  intact  removed  the  instrument  without  in- 
— jttry.  Then  he  removed  the  inscription  from  the  inner  part 
of  the  instrument,  so  that  any  further  ingress  would  not 
cause  them  to  inflict  an  injury  to  this  inflexible  instrument. 

He  had  inherited  the  instrument  and  therefore  prized  it 
very  highly. 


144 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Inter-fere 

energy 

eng-rave 

ent-angle 

inter-grade 

endear 

eng-orge 

enter-prise 

inter-lock 

endeavor 

eng-ulf 

entire-ly 

inter-mediate 

endl-ong 

e-nigma 

entrap 

inter-mingle 

enforce 

enwrapped 

enervate 

interp-ret 

engineer 

enrich 

environ 

inter-work 

enfranchise 

enrobe 

enslave 

enrage 

English 

entail 

THE  COLOR  LINE. 


By  the  energy  of  a  few  Englishmen  in  enriching  them- 
selves by  entrapping  and  enslaving  the  poor  ignorant  negro 
on  their  native  African  soil  and  selling  them  into  slavery, 
they  brought  them  into  an  entirely  new  environment  and  en- 
tailed upon  them  the  duty  of  exercising  their  intellects  to  such 
an  extent  that,  instead  of  enervating  them  it  raised  them  to 
high  standards  of  intelligence.  By  the  endeavor  of  a  certain 
class  to  interfere  with  their  slavery,  our  nation  became  en- 
tangled in  a  bloody  warfare  that  resulted  in  their  enfranchise- 
ment. While  this  enwrapped  them  with  the  delights  of  liberty 
it  engulfed  the  white  man  more  or  less  in  intermingled  social 
complications.  Yet  the  slightest  intergrade  is  classed  as  the 
colored  man  and  the  spirit  of  the  enraged  slave-holder  is  dy- 
ing out. 

The  intermediate  class  of  the  white  man  and  the  intelli- 
gent class  of  the  colored  man  interwork  at  the  same  desk, 
and  some  have  even  been  known  to  interlock  their  business  in- 
terests. 

Yet  the  time  may  never  come  when  the  white  man  will 
willingly  engorge  at  the  same  table  or  endear  the  colored  man 
to  his  social  standing.  They  cannot  interpret  things  that  way. 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


145 


Unb-ark 

unduly 

unarm 

un-cover 

unbe-come 

unbe-lief 

unbolt 

unb-roken 

unclean 


un-con-form 

un-attractive 

under-charge 

under-graduate 

under-ground 

under-mine 

under-take 

under-value 


under-took 

under-taken 

un-equal 

unex-pect 

unfailing 

unfold 

un-forseen 

inter-rupt 


un-fortunate 

un-friendly 

un-grateful 

un-graceful 

un-guarded 

unheard-of 

unfavorable 

un-forgiving 


HIS  POOR  JUDGMENT. 


"Mr.  George  Green,  where  do  you  live?" 
"On  Grand  Avenue,  next  door  to  the  Catholic  church." 
"What  is  your  occupation?    "An  undertaker." 
"Do  you  know  the  plaintiff  in  this  case?"    "I  do." 
"Will  you  please  explain  the  unfriendly  feeling  that  ex- 
ists between  you?" 

"Well,  he  is  an  undergraduate;  has  an  undercharge  to 
which  he  is  unequal;  he  is  ungrateful  for  what  one  does  for 
him;  unguarded  in  his  remarks;  unfriendly  to  his  superiors; 
he  is  unforgiving  to  unfortunate  persons  who  meet  with  un- 
forseen  accidents;  he  is  unbecoming  in  his  conduct, — ^that  is, 
he  is  ungraceful;  his  former  employment  was  on  an  under- 
ground railroad,  which,  of  course,  was  unfavorable,  to  the 
unfolding  of  an  unbroken  record  of  nobility." 

"Is  it  not  true  that  you  have  unduly  unconformed  to  the 
rules  of  etiquette,  that  you  unfailingly  undertook  and  do 
undertake  to  undervalue  this  man  that  you  might  undermine 
him,  but  uncovering  your  own  unclean,  unheard-of  conduct?" 
"I  must  say  that  I  am  unarmed  for  such  an  unexpected 
question.  I  think  you  have  unbolted  the  doors  of  decorum 
by  interrupting  me  with  such  a  question." 


146 


CLARK'S  TANGIBLE  SHORTHAND. 


Priceless 

bracelet 

fearless 

hopeless 

helpless 

heartless 

careless 

cheerless 

grace-less 

tasteless 

establishment 

business 

furnace 


freshness 

blessedness 

fullness 

hardness 

coolness 

firmness 

terseness 

blankness 

self-interest 

advertisement 

imp-rovement 

emplojmient 

treatment 


casement 

endowment 

endearment 

agreement 

claimant 

requirement 

feeble 

maple 

double 

treble 

thribble 

noble 

stubble 


pebble 

publish 

self-evident 

yourself 

herself 

myself 

itself 

ourselves 

yourselves 

themselves 

self-help 

selfishness 


MR.  NOBLE'S  RESIDENCE. 


I,  myself,  visited  Mr.  Noble's  old  home  some  time  ago. 
You  know  it  is  an  old  establishment  among  the  pebbles  and 
stubble  in  a  cheerless  maple  grove.  It  has  double  windows 
and  it  shows  that  the  man  who  built  it  was  careless  and 
tasteless. 

Nell  Rodgers  and  I  went  in  the  freshness  of  the  morning 
and  looked  into  an  old  furnace.  It  was  so  old  that  it  was 
double,  if  not  treble,  my  age.  In  it  we  found  some  priceless 
heirlooms,  among  which  was  a  bracelet,  hid  in  the  casement. 
It  belonged  to  a  niece  of  an  earl.  This  earl  died  and  she 
tried  to  establish  herself  as  a  claimant  to  his  estate. 

It  was  evident  that  she  was  herself  interested.  She  was 
fearless,  cheerless  and  heartless  as  we,  ourselves,  could  see. 

The  improvement  of  the  earl's  business  was  such  as  to  de- 
mand a  large  employment  of  help,  and  the  endearment  of  his 
employees  influenced  him  to  leave  each  of  them  an  endow- 
ment, which  fact  was  published.  The  advertisement  of  his 
agreements  showed  the  niece  her  helplessness  and  that  her  case 
was  hopeless;  so  she  brought  suit,  saying  that  it  was  to  her, 
an  unjust  treatment,  that  her  uncle's  mind  was  feeble,  that  it 
was  his  blankness  of  mind,  itself,  that  was  responsible. 

The  judge  reprimanded  her  with  terseness  and  firmness 
for  her  selfishness  and  hardness  of  heart,  saying,  "You  know, 
yourself,  by  his  employees  themselves,  that  the  fullness  of  his 
blessedness  lies  in  his  giving.  You  need  no  self-help  to  know 
that." 


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